Word: withdrawals
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...school has only allowed the military on campus since 2002, when the government threatened to withdraw all funding to the University if HLS continued to enforce its non-discrimination policy against the military...
...Corporation denounces the South African apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane” but announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete divestment as a “relatively ineffective means of pursuing ethical ends”; President Bok expresses reluctance to use the endowment as a political tool. The fight over divestment extends to the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard’s governing boards; professors, student groups, and alumni associations petition...
...polling stations in Fallujah, that fact alone may not be enough to encourage Sunni voters to turn out. Indeed, the operation in Fallujah strengthened calls to boycott the election by the Association of Muslim Scholars, an organization influential among Sunni clerics, and prompted the main Sunni political party to withdraw from the Allawi government...
...week convinced its competitor Novell to lay down arms in exchange for a $536 million payoff; Microsoft also ended a battle with the Washington D.C.-based Computer & Communications Industry Association. (Cell-phonemaker Nokia quit the trade body in response, calling the deal "inappropriate.") In return, both parties agreed to withdraw support for the European Commission's antitrust case. Brussels charged Microsoft in March with abusing its dominant position. Without Novell and the CCIA, U.S. software firm RealNetworks remains the only major supporter of the Commission. Is the E.U.'s case damaged? Withdrawing "for commercial reasons won't change the [appeal...
...negotiate with him. Israel, the argument continues, should pull out of Gaza and set up a more defensible position in the West Bank while waiting for Arafat to die and be replaced by someone Sharon can trust. Sharon's critics in the Knesset argue that any efforts to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza should be frozen until peace talks can be restarted with a new, more acceptable Palestinian leadership. Sharon's deputy and chief disengagement proponent, Ehud Olmert, says it's too early to change tack just because Arafat is sick. Sharon will have to wait and see who emerges...