Word: withstood
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...Administration's commitment to free trade, however, has been shaky. While the White House has withstood the demands of groups like the lumber and machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free...
...spikers are to make it that far, they'll have to start better than they did last night Slow and unorganized after the spring break, the spikers just withstood a fierce Springfield challenge in the first game of the best-of-five contest, and actually had to come from behind in order to duplicate away from home the feat they accomplished at the IAB on March...
...horror of her citizens at the implication of culpability in Sabra and Shatila compelled Israel to expose her role publicly, officially, and promptly Committed to drawing that critical self evaluation. Israel withstood the ills of her own timeliness. She might have evaded the public accusations of insufficient inquiry by waiting. (Only this past month. America painlessly admitted her negligence in the prolonged internment of Japanese in World...
...Supreme Court withstood one such Administration onslaught last week when it refused to hear a Tennessee school busing case that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...
...setting this example, the legislature should also step up the heat on private institutions within the Commonwealth--especially Harvard Since the divestiture issue exploded on campus four springs ago. University officials have firmly withstood public pressure to divest from businesses contributing to the economic welfare of South Africa's apartheid system. President Bok has upheld the importance of universities presenting their political neutrality, the Corporation has insisted that divestment would diminish any leverage Harvard might have over the behavior of these companies, along with hurting the University financially...