Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council, a U.S.-based nonprofit group, appears to be connecting dots of its own, meanwhile. The organization wrote to the Department of Defense Wednesday, urging full public disclosure over the revelation that 33 Egyptian military officers had been aboard Flight 990. The Pentagon has said Cairo asked Washington to withhold details about the Egyptians aboard the plane pending notification of next of kin, but Arab newspapers have alleged the personnel may have been training in the U.S. "The facts of this case are not as important as the impression that our government is attempting to conceal the facts," the council...
...from one base camp to the next, promising to ban offshore oil drilling in Florida and California, making his own poverty speech, all quickly scheduled to share the headlines with Bradley's long-planned address. While Gore's speech was delivered in the language of personal responsibility--he would withhold federal funds from states that did not require deadbeat dads either to get a job and pay up or go to jail--the very fact that Gore is playing defense on core Democratic issues shows how Bradley has got under his skin...
...successfully implement its peacekeeping and humanitarian programs, the UN must have adequate funding. Member states that withhold dues until the UN proves its effectiveness create an inane irony--the UN cannot prove its effectiveness if it cannot afford food and medical supplies to equip peacekeeping troops or to pay its technical and administrative staff...
...leader--or at least one with whom you could be seen in public. In fact, it was Clinton, not labor, who pushed hard for the invitation. If there was any loser, it was AL GORE. Hoffa remained firmly in the camp of those who want the AFL-CIO to withhold its early support for Gore, which could hurt the Vice President dearly. Gore needs labor's backing and, most important, its dollars to shore up his flagging fund-raising efforts. Now Gore will have to spend time and money courting the leaders whose support seemed certain just weeks...
...flame-retardant sleeper). I asked Ann Brown, chairwoman of the CPSC, if she thought the co-sleeping warning isn't just a touch overblown. Hoarse from defending the CPSC's position on co-sleeping, she said the "huge number of deaths meant it would be wrong for us to withhold this information from parents...