Word: withhold
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Before 1986, several states had lower drinking ages, but the federal government forced them to change to 21 by threatening to withhold highway funding...
When a "line-owner" does not pay a bill over $5, HSTO sends a reminder and then disconnects the student's line after 60 days. When a student who has not paid a phone bill is about to graduate, HSTO contacts the Registrar's office and attempts to withhold the degree...
Given these conditions, the press is expected to withhold the names of alleged victims of rape, but at the same time, the press is also expected to print the names of people accused of rape, even though they have not yet had a fair trial...
...series of federal boards. Perhaps the best was a presidential commission established under President Carter that developed broad policy guidelines on some of the most controversial issues in medicine, such as deciding when brain death has occurred or when it is ethically correct for a doctor to withhold treatment. The commission was disbanded in 1983. Last week's debate made it likely that some kind of national board will be established during President Clinton's watch. It had better be done quickly. Hall told TIME that his technique could produce human clones within "a minimum of a couple of years...
...germ of truth in one of the remarks Mansfield made last week, a germ that probably went unnoticed by partisans on both sides. If there is one standing moral flaw in homosexuality that continues to cause morally ambivalent people concern and perhaps causes them to withhold their approval of homosexual love, it is the problem of procreation. Gays have proven themselves brilliantly in all but this sphere of social existence. Procreation, then, is not an issue that gay activists can afford to be morally flippant about, especially if they want to win ultimate acceptance into society by showing that homosexual...