Word: retractment
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...Greek protesters are angry but resigned. Few believed the demonstrations would force the government to retract the measures, but they hoped to make their pain clear - and issue a warning to the government against cutting any deeper. With clouds of tear gas wafting over the capital on Thursday, it was clear that in Greece's struggle to bring its finances under control, no one will escape the sting...
...first choice was to head NASA. And as a plainspoken first-time diplomat, Gration hasn't exactly been careful with his choice of language. Before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in late July, Gration testified that sanctions on Sudan should be loosened, a statement he had to retract within days. Earlier, he asserted that only "remnants of genocide" remain in Darfur, provoking fury from Darfur advocacy groups and directly contradicting his boss's position: Obama has said three times since January there is currently a genocide in Darfur. (See pictures of solar cookers for Darfuri refugees...
...pressure is relentless on those who do not take the official line. Only a few days after criticizing the attacks on his university's dormitories, the director of Tehran University appeared on national television to retract the criticism. After investigating the reports, he said, he found that all but one of the students who were originally said to have died there weren't even at the dormitory and were alive. The program then cut to a shot of a student called Mohsen Imani, who said he was alive and well and that he despised people misusing his identity...
...reveal all the details of the confessions [by the doctors], but you will see when they appear in court," Samarasinghe said, indicating that the doctors were likely to retract accusations that government forces were responsible for the shelling. When AP reported the May 12 shelling incident, the government reiterated that government forces had already suspended the use of heavy weapons inside the combat zone three weeks earlier. "There was a lot of publicity that we launched an attack on a hospital. That publicity was given due to the three doctors," Samarasinghe said. "Now they are in the custody...
...Maddox said that BrunoBooks is not planning to respond with legal action of its own, and is simply hoping that Barnes & Noble will retract the letter...