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Even the passing idea that the Administration might want to ask OPEC to withhold oil from the market struck many experts as a colossal irony. Said Robert Hormats, an investment banker with New York City's Goldman Sachs and a former Assistant Secretary of State: "Talk about a world being upside down. Only a few years ago, we were asking them to raise production as much as possible...
...when the President's Commission on Organized Crime took the extraordinary step of asking all U.S. companies to test their employees for drug use. In an initial report based on a 32-month study, the commission also urged the Government not only to test its own workers but to withhold federal contracts from private firms that refuse to do the same. "Drug trafficking is the most serious organized-crime problem in the world today," said the commission, which argued that the Government and private companies can play a vital role in curbing demand for drugs...
Burr said the parties had agreed to withhold details until the formal announcement...
...time for the last 25 winners of the Best Picture Oscar is a leisurely 2 hr. 26 min.; Universal's only other Christmas release, Out of Africa, runs 2 hr. 34 min.) When Gilliam delivered a streamlined cut that was still six minutes over the limit, Sheinberg determined to withhold the film until Universal minions could prepare their own version: shorter, more "accessible," and with a more "satisfying" ending, which the director believed would fatally distort his film. By this time Gilliam was seeing life imitating Brazil. Like Sam, he was being compromised by a "ruthlessly legal" cadre of apparatchiks...
...alternative liquids for refreshments. The soft drink companies had the choice of alternatives to pursue, and chose to respond to the needs of the people and search for a sugar substitute. Saccharin was found, but it was later discovered to cause cancer. The soft drink companies did not withhold this information from the public; rather, they began a search for another artificial sweetener, which led to NutraSweet. The soft drink companies needs were sympathetic to the changing needs of the American diet, and, as a result, solidified their position in the consumer industry...