Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ambitious personal and social commitments he has made. He scrapped a grand plan to remodel the family's ten-bedroom house, situated on 200 acres of land in New York's Westchester County, to look like Jefferson's Monticello. Far more painful, no doubt, was his decision to withdraw from the many prominent positions that had given him a measure of social status, including his posts as a trustee of the American Ballet Theater and finance director for the National Jewish Coalition. He canceled a $1.5 million grant to Princeton University, which a son attends. Boesky had often given lavishly...
Negotiations between the government and the F.M.L.N. have made little progress. In June, Duarte invited rebel leaders to meet with him. The meeting, set for Sept. 19 in the village of Sesori, fell through when Duarte refused a rebel demand to withdraw the army from the area. Some observers said the army had moved into positions near Sesori to show it was a force that not only the rebels but also Duarte must contend with. Today there is serious fighting in half the country's 14 departments...
What is also astounding is the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given him nearly two years, until April 1, 1988, to withdraw from the U.S. market. Too much time and consequently too much unfair profit. And after that he is free to practice his profession in Europe, excluding London. Yet the most astounding fact is that Boesky, with tacit SEC permission, sold off $440 million of his holdings before the announcement of his censure. He traded with inside information again. This time he was his own source...
...October 15, 1985--Three members of the faculty committee that oversees the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, which Safran directs, call on the professor to resign. In the wake of revelations that the CIA will fund a conference on Islamic fundamentalism, many scholars, including several from the Middle East, withdraw from the two-day event...
...with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them to reconfirm their statements at Reykjavik," said a U.S. participant. "But they wouldn't even do that. We just went round and round...