Word: withholding
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...protesters were denied access to the club and were not allowed to speak to a club representative. The group that organized the demonstration is considering other means through which to further their message. One possibility is a Web site that would aim to convince alumni to withhold donations; another option may be protesting outside of other Harvard clubs in the future. Provost said these ideas were still in the “development phase.” As for their plans for further protests outside the Harvard Club of New York, Provost said, “we?...
...revelation that a U.S. official had written a letter to the British courts at the request of the Foreign Office warning of the risks for future intelligence sharing between Britain and the U.S. if London released U.S. classified material. Some press reports interpreted this as evidence of collusion to withhold the requested material. But a senior Foreign Office official says the British government had urged counterparts in America to provide the information requested by Mohamed's legal team. "We were saying to the Americans we think you should disclose this material to Mohamed's lawyers through your own legal process...
...been picked yet, never mind confirmed. Environmental groups like the NRDC are already seeking to challenge some Bush regulations in court, and the White House could at least maneuver to suspend - if not yet revoke - the rules while it seeks to overturn them. The Administration could also seek to withhold funding from certain regulations. Last, as part of the Congressional Review Act, which went into force in 1996, the White House can ask Congress to vote down any rule finalized after a certain date, which would include all the midnight regulations. But that law has been used successfully only once...
...Geithner's missing government payments were due to the fact that he did not pay his Social Security and Medicare taxes when he worked as an employee of the International Monetary Fund in the early part of this decade. The IMF is an international organization and does not automatically withhold these taxes on behalf of its employees as U.S. companies do. IMF employees have to pay that portion of their tax bills themselves. Apparently figuring out what is owed is tricky stuff, and at least one accountant reportedly told Geithner he had made all necessary payments...
...adds that similarly executed "deception studies," in which experimenters withhold disclosure about the nature of the experiment to participants, have revealed troubling examples of human callousness before. It was studies in the 1970s, he points out, that identified the psychological phenomenon of "diffusion of responsibility," which gained notoriety following the brutal public slaying of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964, during which none of her neighbors in the surrounding apartment buildings responded to her cries for help or called the police...