Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time could come, West says, when he will withdraw from the public stage back into the ivory tower to think through the practical implications of his ideas, while sustaining himself with books, the black church and sweet soul music. Meanwhile, friends say, West has read biographies of the great public intellectuals of the past -- Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold -- to prepare for the highly visible role that is being thrust upon him, not entirely against his will. After all, if a philosopher like West can't be philosophical about success...
Surveys of doctors themselves show how many are unaware of their patients' options or unwilling to respect them. Many health-care workers knew little about new laws that allowed them to withhold or withdraw machines like respirators and kidney machines or even feeding tubes. Many rejected the idea that once a treatment is started, it can still be dropped, even though the law upholds a patient's right to do so. Though the courts have recognized the right of patients to refuse food and water, 42% of health-care workers rejected that option...
...even physicians who spend all their days with the terminally ill are divided over Kevorkian's answer to the problem of pain. Some may respect the patients' decision to kill themselves but draw the line doing it for them. To withdraw treatment merely allows the disease to do the killing. A lethal injection is altogether different. "Medicine is a profession dedicated to healing," the American Medical Association has declared. "Its tools should not be used to kill people...
...After hearing the concerns of anti-Vietnam War student protests the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) votes to withdraw all curricular and academic status from ROTC. Cadets could now only participate in programs...
...operations because of "pervasive violations" of human rights. The decision abides by the company's investment guidelines, adopted last year. A Chinese Foreign Ministry official downplayed the impact. "At present there are tens of thousands of foreign companies investing in China," he said. "If one or two want to withdraw, please do." Levi's withdrawal will halt production of 5 million pants and shirts a year...