Word: withholding
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...Workers at the top-secret Air Force base near Groom Lake were squaring off against the government in court Wednesday in a lawsuit over incidents involving hazardous chemicals ? incidents in which two workers have already died. But President Clinton, claiming executive privilege, has issued an executive order to withhold evidence in the case ? as Commander in Chief, he's worried about top secret information getting vetted in public court...
Competitors of Toys "R" Us have been slapping the retail giant silly in recent years. Last week the Federal Trade Commission took a whack, ruling that Toys "R" Us had illegally forced such manufacturers as Mattel and Hasbro to withhold their products from warehouse clubs like Costco. The FTC barred Toys "R" Us from blacklisting toymakers for selling to low-price clubs. The company says it will appeal...
...surgeons who are queasy about operating without a transfusion backup, the operating field is not black and white. The jury is still out on whether it is safe to withhold blood, and large-scale clinical trials have yet to be performed. Last year an nih-funded study tried to get some answers. Dr. Jeffrey Carson, chief of the division of general internal medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J., studied records of 1,950 bloodless-surgery patients in an effort to determine the relationship between patients' hemoglobin levels and the risk of dying or developing...
Danny DeVito is annoying. I won't withhold the good news that his character dies over the course of the film-because you might be wondering whether or not he does-and advance notice of happy occurrences makes life a little sweeter...
...when Brooks' record label, EMI, announced in May that it was closing its New York office, and, in the process, getting rid of some of the people he had depended on over the years to market his albums, Brooks decided to withhold his new record indefinitely. Jimmy Bowen, a former head of EMI-Capitol Nashville who worked with Brooks before leaving his post in 1995, predicts the singer will iron out his differences with the label in time to get the CD out by late fall. Says Bowen: "Nobody wins if [Brooks] keeps it in house, including...