Word: retractment
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...sell ''adult'' publications. At least six retail chains that received the letter, with 8,632 outlets nationwide--most notably the Southland Corp., owner of 7-Eleven convenience stores--have stopped selling Playboy and Penthouse. Playboy, along with the Magazine Publishers Association and other groups, is suing the commission to retract the letter and issue a statement explaining its intentions. They charged that the letter has touched off a ''blaze of censorship across the land.'' Judge John Garret Penn is expected to rule on the case before the scheduled release of the commission's controversial report on pornography July...
Power phoned The Ottawa Citizen, according to the newspaper, in an attempt to retract comments she made minutes earlier in an interview about Ignatieff, Canada’s deputy Liberal leader and her predecessor as the director of the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy...
...this weekend, in an attempt to pay homage to the real vote you courageously entered before Harvard’s season even began. I hope you can accept this gesture as my apology for ever doubting you.Sincerely,Loren AmorP.S. If you turn out to be wrong, I probably will retract my application to get you a book in the Old Testament and go back to calling you crazy.—Staff writer Loren Amor can be reached at lamor@fas.harvard.edu...
...American literature and language and the director of the creative writing program, says he was not too concerned when he won a 2006 National Book Foundation award for writers under 35. Johnston says that he was only worried that the committee would realize they made a mistake and retract the award...
...engaged” is something he has never been. Even before his expected return, Kirshner is attempting to retract some of the simple steps that the Gehrkes took to bring House community to Quincy. Kirshner has made it clear to House staff that the popular pool table is an unwelcome addition to the lobby, and expressed hope that it will be removed on the basis that it is “unaesthetic.” The dining hall workers have also, once again, been told that they are to remain in the kitchen...