Word: withdrawals
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...father Jamal Arbach, a historian, and their German mother Bettina Benz, an architect, who met in Toulouse. "It's a great chance for the girls to grow up with three cultures," says Arbach. "The world is becoming far more global in future and I don't want them to withdraw when they are confronted with a different culture." The sisters seem blissfully unaware of the cultural differences they are being educated to bridge. Pressed to identify differences between her country of birth and her parents' homelands, the best Denya can manage is: "In France we don't have bread rolls...
...range are less likely to be remote, disciplinarian figures than their predecessors: "These men spoke to the fetus, were present at the birth; they refuse to accept the idea of their children growing up without them." Professor Chaumier has noted an increasing emphasis on home life. He says "People withdraw into their family as the last bastion capable of giving meaning to their lives because they don't find much meaning elsewhere - not in politics, projects or work, and not in the future." That's ironic, because such new families will define the future. Nearly everyone who studies the topic...
...Even the Arab League proposal that Abbas is demanding Hamas accept as the basis for a unity government offers only conditional recognition - the Arab states would normalize relations with Israel if it agrees to withdraw to its 1967 borders. Hamas likes to dodge the issue by pointing out that Israel has no intention of doing that...
...fifth floor of Canaday isn’t wheelchair accessible. We’ve been through three years of these trials and they don’t show any sign of stopping. For instance, just two weeks before school started one of our closest friends was forced to withdraw after accidentally implicating himself in the Jon Benet Ramsey murder. (Don’t worry John Mark, we hid your external hard drives just like you told us to; third drawer, right side, Dean Gross’ desk. And we believe you.) But we never get too down, because there...
...example, this fiscal year, “if you would like to withdraw $100 from your gift fund, you will actually need to withdraw $105,” McLoughlin wrote in an e-mail...