Word: withdrawal
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...major decisions that reflected their desperation. First, they agreed to attend peace talks with the Sandinistas on March 21 in the Nicaraguan village of Sapoa. They thus dropped their once adamant demand that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra first institute internal reforms. The officials say they will probably have to withdraw half of the roughly 8,000 fighters from Nicaraguan territory by mid- April because of a lack of funds. "Obviously, we are going to the talks in a very weakened state," says a dismayed contra leader...
...days on Blue Mountain, where she imagined herself to be the heartthrob of an abundance of "gentleman callers." Her main purpose in life is to see her children married and successful. In the process of achieving these goals she manages to alienate Tom completely and to cause Laura to withdraw even further into herself...
...absolutely sure," Harvard attorney Natasha Lissman asked McWade, "that what they were saying was, 'Harvard refuses to settle unless you withdraw the complaints with the EEOC and MCAD,' and not maybe 'Charlotte Walters, you have the same complaints at Harvard as you do at the EEOC and MCAD--let's settle them at the same time...
...Macy & Co., an all-American name that evokes images of Thanksgiving Day parades and the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street, made a comparable last-minute counterbid for Federated. Corporate rescues, though, are never as certain as chivalric ones. While Federated seized on Macy's offer, Campeau refused to withdraw from the field...
Worried about a financial collapse, depositors rushed to withdraw cash from Panamanian banks, and the Panama National Bank declared that it could not help meet the demands placed on these institutions. All banks in the country were shut down by Friday. An anti-Noriega general strike gradually picked up steam before being called off by its leaders, who were worried that an economic panic might produce widespread violence...