Word: withdraw
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...Reagan's 1980 campaign organization, Campaign Manager John Sears tried to have Meese ousted from Reagan's team of advisers. Reagan would not stand for it, and Sears himself was dumped. After being nominated for Attorney General, Meese faced harsh congressional questions regarding his personal finances. Despite calls to withdraw the nomination, Reagan stuck by his old friend. Now, with serious cracks appearing in his Administration, Reagan has turned once again to his all-purpose...
Gorbachev was less forthcoming on the question of Afghanistan. India has long sought reassurances that the Kremlin would withdraw the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan, and Gandhi again pressed for a complete withdrawal. At a press conference Gorbachev said he could not give a timetable for withdrawal but had been encouraged by a United Nations peace effort involving Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. At the same time, Gandhi refused to endorse a Soviet proposal to convene an Asian Security Conference along the lines of the European Security Conference that produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement. Gandhi brushed...
...bargain in good faith with the patrolmen. Earlier this fall Harvard negotiators refused to negotiate a compromise over a union proposal to adopt a new work schedule similar to those at several other local and university police departments and then tried to pressure the union by threatening to withdraw retroactive wage increases to be granted after a new contract is approved. And last year the University forced a union grievance into binding arbitration--which found on behalf of the patrolmen--instead of negotiating with its workers...
...last called into action in the spring of 1985 to try the cases of 18 students involved in divestment protests at Lowell House and 17 Quincy St. After a summer of hearings the committee punished several students with suspended requirements to withdraw. The Faculty Council is currently considering a plan to abolish the CRR and replace it with a new student-faculty committee...
British audiences will be watching Americanreaction to tonight's speech very closely because,according to an article in The Economist, someBritons fear that Kinnock's disarmament policymight prompt the U.S. to withdraw from itscommitment to defend England...