Word: withdrawn
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Though the U.S. maintains very tough trade sanctions against such countries as Cuba, Viet Nam, Kampuchea, Libya, North Korea and Nicaragua, the Reagan Administration opposes any similar action toward South Africa. So far, Washington has banned the sale of arms, oil and certain police equipment to South Africa, withdrawn from sports and cultural exchanges, curtailed government loans and stopped the sale of Krugerrand gold coins in the U.S., but Reagan opposes the adoption of additional measures. Moreover, the Administration argues that America's ability to influence the Botha government's policies is marginal, even though the U.S. is South Africa...
...willing to be wrong if I am wrong," says John D. Morris, associate professor of geology at the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon, Calif. His book Tracking Those Incredible Dinosaurs and the People Who Knew Them and a creationist movie on the same subject have been withdrawn from circulation...
...real motive for the lawsuit is a church effort to control his Santa Fe Communications. "The hierarchy of the Catholic Church wants to run any Catholic network," he says. Indeed, Erica has testified that in 1984, Vatican Ambassador to the U.S. Pio Laghi hinted that church recognition might be withdrawn from Santa Fe Communications "if we didn't do something right away" about Harry's antics. Erica also stated that shortly before the trial began, Mother Teresa expressed her support...
Anorexics, on the other hand, are the victims of very isolating problems and do not often reach out for help. "Anorexics tend to become more and more withdrawn," says Rosalind J. Carter '86, an EPO counselor...
Some Harvard students enjoy visiting and even staying at the monastery. Anne Hallward '88, an Eliot House resident, says she attends services at the monastery because it is a smaller, more intimate service. "The common stereotype is that monks are withdrawn and uninvolved with the world whereas they are freed from other things and have time to really be involved in what is going on." Hallward says that the first time she attended a service at the monastery, she ended up sitting at the head table at the dinner following the service, and, to her surprise, found that the superior...