Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only did Lee not pursue the facts himself, he didn't even give anyone else the opportunity. Although Lee called for someone to speak in favor of an amendment that would withhold the council's endorsement of ROTC until it abandoned its anti-gay bias, he allowed a speaker opposed to the amendment to use all of the time allotted for debate. "I should have told him that he was out of order...I wasn't listening," said Lee. "Clearly it was an error on my part...
...money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from the Japanese...
...trading charges, began singing to prosecutors about alleged stock-fraud schemes he carried out with Milken and Drexel. Last December Drexel struck a deal with prosecutors that called for the firm to plead guilty to six felony charges and pay $650 million in fines. Drexel also said it would withhold $200 million in compensation owed to Milken...
...this light, the decision to withhold lottery numbers fits into the general image of forlorn students crying objections to administrators from the wilderness...
...Drexel Burnham Lambert and its junk-bond wizard, Michael Milken, the pretense is over and the divorce begins. In court papers filed last week, it was disclosed that Drexel has agreed to fire Milken and withhold his 1988 bonus, estimated at $200 million. Since the investment firm has already agreed to settle criminal-fraud charges against it for a $650 million penalty, denying Milken his money effectively reduces the fine by more than 30%. Milken's attorney, Martin Flumenbaum, castigated the settlement as a "violation of due process, a punishment without trial." Separate criminal charges against Milken for securities fraud...