Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with their cash bribes, many first went on a spending spree for what passes for luxury goods in China. As a result, sales of watches, radios and cotton goods were belatedly banned, and the Maoists issued orders freezing wages and bank withdrawals. In Shanghai, where Mao backers and anti-Mao farmers fresh from the country confronted one another, the anti-Mao city authorities were accused of trying to withdraw more than $400,000 in funds at a stroke. Trying to get the country's industry running again without its regular workers or managers, Maoist students took over...
...never particularly thrilling. Even avid whodunit fans must be a trifle bored by corpses in trunks, corpses that drop out of closets, and the confetti-like strewing of misleading clues. Coat also contains the customary complement of victims whose impenetrable innocence prevents them from knowing when or how to withdraw from transparently treacherous situations...
...commit themselves was to work together to try to defeat Gaullist candidates in the parliamentary elections next March. Even that collaboration will be limited. It applies only to runoff elections in which two leftist candidates face one Gaullist. In such cases, one of the leftists will be expected to withdraw and throw his votes to the other...
...moderate-sized military force without considering the domestic consequences. This argument, however, can be turned around. Once the United States does get involved in a war, the middle classes find reasons for supporting the war, and it becomes politically dangerous to admit mistakes or attempt to withdraw. It is often said that the only way we can get out of Vietnam is by changing Administraitons. A change of Administration preceded the Korean cease-fire. If this assumption is true, then it is wise to give the President a professional army because it will be easier for him to pull...
...note from the Board saying that one is "required to withdraw" is a little less permanent. A student who has been required to withdraw for disciplinary reasons is usually permitted to return after a semester or two. "Severance of connection" means the same thing, but is issued for academic and not disciplinary reasons...