Word: withdrawals
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...nephew Napoléon III was ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing an Austrian archduke as emperor. The U.S., distracted by the Civil War, did nothing at first. But in 1866 it demanded that the French withdraw and offered moral and diplomatic support when the Mexicans overthrew the imperial puppet regime soon thereafter...
...diplomacy, and she has earned the trust of the military because of her hard work on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her refusal to be pinned down on her exact plans for leaving Iraq has been the subject of recent attacks by Edwards. But Edwards' proposal to immediately withdraw 50,000 troops from Iraq - without saying which troops, from what regions and what the remaining troops would do - demonstrates a careless political expediency on an issue that demands the utmost care...
...going to be a Darwinian process, a sorting out of those who are actually producing a respectable performance and those who are not," says Giles Conway-Gordon, managing partner of San Francisco-based Cogo Wolf Asset Management, an investment manager for wealthy individuals. He predicts that investors could withdraw as much as $500 billion from funds that tanked this summer...
...mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
...said that while the previous government referred to "them in Brussels," the new government will say "us in the E.U." as the new government will drive a harder bargain with the U.S. over Washington's request to base a missile shield on Polish territory; it is also expected to withdraw troops from Iraq next year...