Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a relatively poor first-round showing, the centrist "reform movement" fell short of establishing itself as a credible non-leftist alternative to Gaullism. Its leaders decided to approach the second round on different tacks. Bargaining for a voice in any new Gaullist government, Lecanuet agreed to withdraw his candidates in districts where they might pull votes away from a Gaullist and thus help to throw the election to a leftist. Servan-Schreiber, hoping that the Gaullists would lose their majority and thus be forced to turn to him and his allies for help, urged centrist candidates to stay...
...resolve the dispute, the opinion of five outside scholars was sought. Three experts in his specialty endorsed him heartily; the other two had reservations. That convinced the mathematicians that Bellah could not be first rate. By 14 to 7 the faculty urged Kaysen to withdraw the nomination. He refused, and the trustees appointed Bellah...
...thinks it was Guillain-Barré syndrome, which generally produces a less permanent form of paralysis); whatever it was, it left him partially paralyzed. Dropped from the class roster by professors who felt he would be unable to keep up his grades, he was restored only after he promised to withdraw voluntarily if his grades dropped below A. They never did. Through exercise, Good rehabilitated himself to the point where he has only
...with handicapped kids, and we're overworked already," one teacher at a public school in Somerville said. Parents, too, were afraid at the outset that after they had struggled to get their children admitted to an acceptable custodial situation or provate school, they were going to be forced to withdraw them in favor of a public education...
...that he would some day lead the army and later the country. It also told how and when he would die, he says, but he has never revealed the details. Another dream, last August, inspired him to expel the Asians. Still another told him, somewhat irrelevantly, that Israel "must withdraw from the territories it occupied in the Six-Day War, or they will be liberated before the end of 1974." Asked if he dreams often, Amin replied solemnly: "Only when it is necessary...