Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimates -- is a loosening of the rigid rules that kept much of last year's $24 billion package on the shelf. The main portion will again be aimed at shoring up the ruble; Moscow's failure to slow down the money-printing presses last year forced international backers to withhold stabilization funds. Russia also lost access to promised aid when it failed to make payments on its estimated $80 billion in foreign debt. That attitude is changing: just before the summit, the Paris Club, an informal group of creditor nations, agreed to give Moscow another 10 years to repay...
...community was disregarded in a more subtle manner. By taking a permit away from the Ancient Order of Hibernians and granting it to a group that would allow a gay organization to march under a progay banner, the city government established the dangerous precedent that the government can selectively withhold the right to use public space based on the opinions of the user...
Baker's policy was to bully Israel by threatening to withhold loan guarantees unless the Jewish state stopped building settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, land won after an Arab invasion of Israel...
...Withholding loan guarantees made little sense. Israel has never defaulted on a loan and in any case, conditions had never been placed on loan guarantees given to a long list of other countries (including Iraq in the late 1980s). However, the Machiavellian Baker threatened to withhold the guarantees while demanding no major concessions from Arab countries regarding human rights, the Arab boycott of companies that do business with Israel or even recognition of the Jewish state's right to exist...
Stahlman said that the article's forceful criticism of management in the computer industry may have influenced the decision to withhold it from the Review...