Word: withhold
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Those who withhold their Harvard affiliation may be doing it out of more than self-conscious modesty. Just ask Ryan P. Lannon ’05. “I have roommates that tell girls, ‘I go to B.U., I go to B.C.,’ just so the girls think they’re more social, more normal,” he says. Lannon says he doesn’t do that, but has experienced multiple negative repercussions from telling people he goes to Harvard...
Gore's blast and Daschle's tirade did hearten liberal Democratic donors--some of whom have begun threatening to withhold contributions unless the party stands up to Bush on Iraq. Singer Barbra Streisand's political adviser faxed a "confidential memo" to House minority leader Dick Gephardt, a strong backer of military action, urging Democrats "to get off the defensive." The memo pointedly noted that Streisand had delegated an intermediary to write it--because the pop diva was busy rehearsing for a concert in Los Angeles that was expected to raise $4 million for House Democrats...
...least, he advocated more stringent ranking policies or ending the ability of HMOs to withhold their rankings...
NCQA spokesperson Brian Schilling said he agrees shortcomings exists in a system that allows HMOs to withhold their rankings but noted the NCQA changed its policy in 1999 to require all accredited health plans to report their rankings. HMOs that are not accredited, however, still do not have to release the rankings...
...rights and aggressive, escalating retaliation. Our whole world pays a devastating price (because of Islamic extremists’ rhetoric about the American-Israeli alliance) for Israel’s failure to make peace with the Palestinian people. Yes, that rhetoric is anti-Semitic; but the campaign on campuses to withhold financial support from Israel, as an inducement for change, is not. It is an exercise of free speech and the wish to apply deeply held American principles—a culture rooted in Judeo-Christian ethics—to our own institutions...