Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response to the grade strike, university administrators had threatened to withhold teaching assignments, to expel teaching assistants (T.A.) who had participated in the strike and to put negative letters of recommendation in their files...
...control the people." The law has human rights activists squealing, not to mention Pope John Paul II, who called personally on Yeltsin earlier this week to reject a law that is aimed squarely at his upstart Russian flock. Even Congress has gotten serious, passing legislation Thursday that would withhold $200 million in U.S. aid if the bill is signed into law. But that $200 million carrot may have precisely the opposite effect. Yeltsin endures constant carping that he is too often the marionette of cash-rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will...
...apologized for the stake burnings and other pious tortures meted out by the Counter-Reformation in the 16th century. What comes next? The Italian government, heir to the gore and glory that was Rome, should certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted it was a mite sorry for the heedlessness that left Louis XVI headless...
...coalition succeeded in convincing student representatives from six of the colleges in the Ivy League to encourage their schools to withhold information. Brown's abstained from the vote, and Harvard's rejected the motion because of problems with the bill's wording, according to Undergraduate Council representative Olivia Verma...
...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...