Word: withdrawal
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Thus when the Bush-Quayle campaign used a Time cover last week as the centerpiece of a commercial attacking Bill Clinton, we asked Robert Teeter, chairman of Bush-Quayle '92, to withdraw it. "The implicit suggestion of the commercial that Time endorses its contents is extremely damaging to Time's reputation," we wrote. The cover in question, which appeared on our April 20 issue, was an examination of the problems Clinton was having during the primaries with voters who did not trust him -- but it did not endorse President Bush, nor did it conclude that Governor Clinton was untrustworthy...
...that spirit, he did not withdraw into bitterness, but stayed on as chairman of the Social Democrats -- and as leader of the Socialist International -- and evolved into an honored, even beloved, elder statesman. One of the crowning moments of his later years came after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, when he delivered a ringing speech in Berlin that ended with the motto of unification: "What belongs together will now grow together...
Yeltsin feels caught in the middle. In recent months he has tried to encourage Tokyo by promising to withdraw most of the islands' 7,000-strong Russian garrison. His government has also floated a compromise in which Japan would get some of the islands, while Russia would keep the larger two of Kunashir and Iturup, where most Russians live. Tokyo has rejected the idea, and Yeltsin, fearful of risking the wrath of his Moscow rivals, has been unable to sweeten the deal further. Last week he canceled a trip to Tokyo rather than confront the issue...
...handbook says violating fire safety regulations can lead to a student being required to withdraw from the University...
...Gore of Beverly Hills. The stormy controversy revolved around rap star Ice-T's Cop Killer, a song that, many argue, condones murder and fuels hatred of police officers. Last week the L.A. rapper, who made a foray into heavy metal on his latest album, Body Count, moved to withdraw Cop Killer from that record...