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Riker explained that the student group established 10 committees to consider the various aspects of the tenure issue. Some groups will meet to make amendments to the proposal at hand, while others will try to persuade Tufts students to withhold their contributions to the senior class pledge drive until the administration agrees to these amendments...
...Americans condone the withholding of food and medical treatment from patients, such as coma victims, the elderly and infants who cannot speak for themselves, who is to say we will not also some day withhold medical treatment from the mentally retarded or physically handicapped because they are considered a burden to society...
...people now die in a hospital or nursing home (only half did 35 years ago), and "most don't die unexpectedly," says University of Wisconsin Pediatrician Norman Post. "They die as a result of a very conscious decision by doctors, along with the patient's family, to withhold treatment." The question becomes not how to save a life but when to let it go. Aided by artificial and transplanted organs and a jungle gym of gadgetry, doctors can now stave off death for long periods. The blessings of science have brought the curse of choices that raise confounding...
...first was an effort, supported by the powerful banking lobby, to attach an amendment to the Social Security bill that would delay by six months a requirement that banks withhold taxes on dividends and interest. This proposal, advanced by Democratic Senator John Melcher of Montana, was a modified version of an effort to repeal the withholding requirement outright. The week before, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Robert W. Kasten tacked the repeal proviso on to the Senate's $5.1 billion jobs bill and got trounced...
...agency to cancel it. In the course of the talks, she was amazed to hear an IRS employee tell her on the phone, "Frankly, my dear, nobody reports tips." She never did so again. Starting this year, however, restaurant owners who have ten or more full-time employees must withhold 8% of gross sales as an estimated tax on tips, and the result, says Rachel, is "fury...