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...similar situation can be found among those who are seeking to withhold money from the University unless they hire more women and minority faculty. But soliciting money for the cause of ethnic studies would be an easier task because alumni can earmark donations for a specific discipline, but not for a professor of a given race or gender...
...sexual harassment. Recruiters and their customers tend to be far from military headquarters, and oversight is minimal. The isolation creates a bond among recruiters that can lead them to count on their buddies to lie for them. In one case, "all of the recruiters in the station conspired to withhold information from me as an act of self-protection," an investigating officer wrote. In another case, a local commander was reprimanded by his superiors for trying to derail an investigation of sexual harassment on his watch...
...probably know, we have chosen to withhold money from the University until it shows signs of achieving gender and ethnic equity in its faculty...
...platform in mid-air. He turns to the viewer and says, "I know this defies the law of gravity, but you see, I never studied law." This tongue-in-cheek, yet outrageous approach creates a comedy so simple and rich that no child or adult should be able to withhold a smile...
...toyed with the idea of using digital-music files to generate in-store CDs tailored to customers' specific preferences--a practice already common in the piracy-friendly Third World. The industry didn't exactly welcome the plan with open arms. In fact, the big labels howled and threatened to withhold their hottest titles. IBM and Blockbuster quietly let the idea...