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...electoral victory is as thin as this year's. There might be public pressure on electors to cast their votes on behalf of the winner of the national popular vote. Imagine the din from radio talk shows, the threats and promises aimed at these electors. A few might withhold their votes unless their candidate agrees, say, to ban the RU 486 pill...
After her name made it onto the search circuit, many alums called the University, threatening to withhold donations if she were chosen as president...
...began in 1997, when Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 asked seniors to withhold their gifts from the college and place them in a privately held escrow fund to protest the University's tenure policies. The several thousand dollars raised will only be given to the University when it meets criteria for tenuring of female professors...
...implications: Could statins decrease the risk of heart attack in people with "normal" cholesterol levels and no history of heart disease? But here researchers ran into an ethical dilemma. Considering everything they knew about the effectiveness of statins, would it be fair in a test of their theory to withhold the drugs from those who might benefit from them but would be given a placebo, or dummy pill...
...benefited from a double standard. Residual disdain for the teacher's pet makes it satisfying to catch a smarty pants like Gore in an error, while it's no fun to go after the class cutup. This is not meant to excuse Gore's earlier performance in Boston or withhold credit from Bush for passing an exam on world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there...