Word: withhold
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Kennedy School Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management Mary Jo Bane, who also signed the letter calling for Law’s resignation, began a drive last month to convince community members to withhold donations to the archdiocese until the Church begins reforms. The Archdiocese of Boston is currently in the midst of a $300 million capital campaign...
...debates the magnitude of grade inflation and considers competing solutions to the problem, it must not compromise valuable educational goals looking for a quick fix. Top-quality work deserves to receive high grades, but the talent of Harvard’s student body does not dictate that the University withhold grades below B for only the most unusual circumstances...
Second, with the University’s ability to easily replace workers due to the current unemployment rates, the coercive force of the University as an employer cannot be met with the usual power that workers have to withhold their labor in a strike. As a result, the workers must use the only counterforce available to them, which is to enlist the faculty and students on their behalf. The consequence has been, as you have seen, widespread disaffection, disruption of University life and educational function and a breakdown in the communality on which the University depends...
...India. He insists that there is no way he could have mangled his pronunciation of David so profoundly that it could have been heard as destruction. Police have refused to name the reservationist or provide a copy of their report on Das, claiming that it is their policy to withhold such information. The CEO of Airporter, Alan Glickman, says the reservationist is a "valued employee in good standing." When Das goes before a judge on Dec. 18, facing the possibility of six months' jail time for each charge, it will be the clerk's word against...
...conceivable that he'll never have to. In the upper echelons of Washington, D.C., where one might expect the most heated of responses to the Walker case, there is a perceptible push to withhold a verdict. This week, President Bush referred to Walker as "this poor fellow," and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told reporters his fate would be decided "in good time...