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Word: retractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take the offer seriously. EU security chief Javier Solana flew to Riyadh to discuss ways of promoting the initiative. And renewed talk of peace deals even appears to have sparked a mud fight between the Bush administration and its predecessor - presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer was forced on Thursday to retract an earlier statement implying that the Clinton administration had helped spark the intifada by pushing too hard for a final peace agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Crown Prince Abdullah | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

Good: It’s a large black suitcase that has one of the handles that you can extend and retract and it can also be used as a backpack. There’s a top compartment, a middle compartment and a big lower compartment. I take this to most classes. Most of the time I roll...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roll Out! | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including the Paris embassy. "He's talking about very important figures in the al-Qaeda structure, right up to bin Laden's inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including the Paris embassy. "He's talking about very important figures in the al-Qaeda structure, right up to bin Laden's inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club: Al-Qaeda's Web of Terror | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's missile shield and furious that Powell had uttered the word Clinton, said, No way. The next day Powell had to step out and retract his position. He took the setback stoically, at least in public. When the dust settled, he told reporters, "I got a little far forward on my skis." But friends say he felt "as if he learned his lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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