Word: withdrawals
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...answer depends on where you live. The highest courts of seven states, including Connecticut and Kansas, have ruled that a woman may withdraw her consent at any time, and if the man doesn't stop, he is committing rape. Illinois has become the first state to pass legislation giving a woman that right to change her mind. But in Maryland--as well as in North Carolina--when a woman says yes, she can't take it back once sex has begun--or, at least, she can't call the act rape...
...nation’s second-richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a longtime faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he maintains an active lab. He said that those two commitments weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw his name...
...chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation's second richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He said that those two commitments weighed on his decision to withdraw his name...
...costs plenty. A study by the newspaper Ha'aretz reckons that since 1967, the bills run upwards of $10 billion, excluding military costs in the West Bank. According to Yaacov Shamir, a communications professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, recent polls show that 52% of Israelis are prepared to withdraw from settlements as part of a future peace deal with Palestinians...
...forefront of the struggle against Israel. The anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which forms the backbone of the government and includes the Sunnis, has seized upon the support of the West and its Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia to break Syria's grip on Lebanon. Damascus was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebnaon following the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, a former premier, whose death many Lebanese blame on the Syrian regime...