Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company spent an estimated $300 million to recall 31 million old packages of Tylenol capsules and promote new ones that were "triple sealed" to resist tampering. Now the company must restore confidence yet again. It will not be easy: the poisoned woman's mother described the plan to withdraw capsules from the market as "three years too late...
...only to find and rescue the two missing Israelis, but to root out guerrilla bases used for staging attacks inside the border security zone and against northern Israel. During the raid, at least 15 Lebanese and two Israeli servicemen were killed. At week's end, the Israelis began to withdraw troops, following reports that the captured soldiers were not in the area. One of them may have been executed...
...Tehran, the Iranian government is ballyhooing the bravery and tenacity of its troops. In the U.N. Security Council last week, Iranian diplomats remained unmoved as members of the Arab League pleaded for Tehran to withdraw to its own borders and agree to a ceasefire. Iran's leaders insist that there will be no peace until Saddam's militant regime falls. The Iraqi army can be expected to do everything necessary to prevent such a scenario...
...regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski had hoped that it could intimidate Walesa and his followers. But the Warsaw government backtracked when it became clear that the trial was turning out more absurd than intimidating. Invited by the judge to find an amicable solution, the state prosecutor offered to withdraw the charges if Walesa would make a statement that satisfied the commission members. Responded Walesa: "I had no intention of humiliating anyone." With that, the case was dismissed. Walesa noted that the compromise outcome was a "sign of hope...
LAST WEEK, the Administrative Board forced two students to withdraw for a year and placed three more on disciplinary probation. These rather stiff penalties were meted out for the students' role in an escalating exchange of pranks between two rooms which finally culminated with two students, both of whom were required to withdraw, accidentally igniting some towels. Because the Ad Board meets behind closed doors, the community will never be able to judge the merits of the case...