Word: withdrawals
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...that I believe are deeply misguided, the federal government has made a decision that, despite its traditional role as the major funder of basic research in the biomedical sciences, not just in the United States but in the entire world, that this is an area from which it will withdraw,” he said, adding that this decision put the burden on Harvard to fund and develop the HSCI...
Summers says he had always planned to withdraw from the review at this stage, leaving it, as he said, in the hands of the Faculty...
Less than three weeks later, the U.N. decided to withdraw its troops from Rwanda. By that point, tens of thousands had already been killed...
...change to Lebanon's constitution that would extend the tenure of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, 68, a former Lebanese general widely viewed as a Syrian puppet. Assad believed that Hariri was behind U.N. Resolution 1559, a measure sponsored last year by the U.S. and France demanding that Syria withdraw its remaining 14,000 troops from Lebanon. A well-placed Western diplomat says Hariri was the "main mover and shaker, the one who managed to forge the alliance between the U.S. and France that was behind the resolution. And the Syrians knew it." Perhaps counting on Hariri's history of placating...
...needed for such operations take years to acquire - and are the source of one SAS nickname, "the chicken stranglers." According to the patrol sergeant, his men performed superbly. "It was considered one of the best patrols," he says. "Everybody else got compromised before it was time for them to withdraw from the area...