Word: withholding
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...justices consider a high-profile dispute over campus military recruitment. A coalition of three-dozen law schools, the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), will ask the justices to overturn the so-called Solomon Amendment, a statute first passed by Congress in 1994 that allows the Pentagon to withhold federal funds from universities that limit recruiters’ access to students. Many law schools—including Harvard’s—want to place restrictions on recruiters as a protest against the military’s “don’t ask, don?...
...Chinese Communist Party officials have been frequently criticized for trying to cover up bad news after the fact, but in this case they chose to withhold what they knew even while the danger persisted. As the poison flowed downstream, information flowed in only one direction: up. While the public remained in the dark, officials reported to their superiors, who in turn reported further up the command chain. At each level, officials understood that there was less risk of official censure in awaiting orders than in making snap decisions that might have enabled residents to prepare...
...just another avenue to express indignation with the University. Former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and former Black Men’s Forum President Brandon M. Terry ’05 started “Senior Gift Plus,” which promised to withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude?...
...annual Senior Gift program, Harvard seniors raise money from their peers in conjunction with the Harvard College Fund. The money can be designated either for general use on things like buildings and facilities, or it can be earmarked especially for financial aid. Last year, student activists asked classmates to withhold their donations until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. Harvard eventually did sell the shares. But Senior Gift raised its lowest total since 1998, and many believe the efforts of the activist group, Senior Gift Plus, were responsible. Washington...
...duration of the strike, graduate teaching assistants will withhold all their teaching, grading, and research responsibilities, union officials said...