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Charging the council with sidestepping the GSA request because accepting a formal non-discrimination clause might discourage potential alumni contributors. GSA leaders announced plans to distribute at commencement 10,000 copies of a letter urging alumni to withhold contributions until the University accepts the statement...
Relman: One way is to withhold professional approval of such hospitals as teaching hospitals. The city would respond I think, to pressure from the accrediting bodies which decide whether hospitals should be approved for teaching or not. Simply to walk off the job is nothing for a doctor to do. A doctor doesn't have any right to walk...
...even if all students exercise their individual option to withhold $6.50 of the $10 surcharge, that still leaves the Council with $20,000 derived from a forced $3.50 addition to all students term bills. Proponents of the Dowling proposal claim that this "minimal" sum will allow the Council some degree of continuity and operability. These two factors, however, will only further the Council's lack of accountability. The $20,000 will guarantee the Council sufficient funding to continue its operations and to maintain its pretense of representing students even if it totally lacks student support. Students taking the $6.50 refund...
...level civil servants to perform their bureaucratic duties of stamping documents and processing licenses, are specifically permitted on the grounds that petty corruption is unavoidable almost anywhere. But there is a large gray area between that sort of bureaucratic paper shuffling and the discretionary authority of local officials to withhold approval for a project or license, and thereby extort not $50 or $100, but perhaps $10,000 or even $500,000 from a victimized company...
...several people who make a business out of it, but when we look at their returns, we find they are completely straight." The pros know that the federal tax code makes it a crime for anyone to provide false or fraudulent information on an IRS return or to willfully withhold pertinent information...