Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...early this morning, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, “no” votes on question three edged out affirmatives, 52-48. Seven of Cambridge’s 33 precincts voted on a non-binding resolution that asks representatives to support a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. About three-quarters of Cantabrigians who voted on the issue supported the resolution to withdraw. The question appeared on ballots in 139 towns across the state. —Staff writer Stephanie S. Garlow can be reached at sgarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
Such was last year’s divestment campaign led by Harvard’s Darfur Action Group. Then, thousands of man hours were spent convincing universities and pension plan managers to withdraw their investments from Chinese oil companies doing blood-stained business in Darfur...
...divested all of us from the anxiety that we might be somehow guilty. The panging sensation of complicity is not new—it welled up in Pontius Pilate some millennia ago. He didn’t withdraw his investments from the timber industry—in those days, a literal hand-washing sufficed—but the message was clear: I’m not to blame for whatever happens...
...prep and repetitive one-liners ("Why the hell not?" is his campaign slogan) are beginning to seem stale and tired. He has come under attack for his flip remarks, like one calling Katrina evacuees in Houston "crackheads and thugs", but he has refused Bell's calls to withdraw. "This is not an election. This is a moment in history," he tells supporters. "This is what Davey Crockett died for at the Alamo...
...hour plan. More conservative Democrats, many of them newly elected from Republican-leaning districts, would hold the balance of power. If the Democrats have a more comfortable majority, however, the party's edgier, angrier side could emerge, especially on the question of whether or how quickly to withdraw from Iraq. One of the early tests of which direction Pelosi would take could be an expected fight for majority leader between the current whip Steny Hoyer and Pennsylvania's John Murtha, who has become a hero to the antiwar left...