Word: withdrawn
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...said the bill would "send a message to the Philippine people that the United States has withdrawn its support for the Marcos regime while continuing its support and assistance for the Philippine people...
...illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that it was time to "establish control over immigration." U.S. officials revived a policy that had been abandoned 27 years earlier: detention of illegal aliens until their petitions for asylum could be reviewed. Since...
Marcos' call for elections caught Washington flat-footed. The strongman, who suffers from a form of systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease that often affects the kidneys, had grown increasingly withdrawn from the country's plight; he had craftily evaded previous U.S. pressures for reform. Most experts were skeptical that the vote would lead to any significant power shift in Manila. But among many Filipinos, the notion that the balloting might lead to change seemed to take on a life of its own. Philippine voters might even provide the occasion for an all too rare peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy...
...lines. But the rules have not stopped the interstate spread of financial institutions that function very much as real banks do. These companies have been able to circumvent the law because they do not fit the legal definition of a bank: an institution that takes deposits that can be withdrawn on demand and makes commercial loans. Known as "nonbank banks," the newcomers generally take deposits or make loans, but do not do both. About 80 of these limited-service banks have sprung up across...
Something like the beliefs expressed by Grossman, Wirka and Stevens are widely shared by students today, but not universally, and I wonder that Harvard should impose those of Stevens on everyone. (If, indeed, it was prepared to do so had not the Clubs, with fine aristocratic disdain, withdrawn from the arena. In the event, former Dean of the College, John Fox, whom the Committee advises, was spared by the necessity of tipping his hand.) Is it not sufficient that the Committee on College Life have opportunity to persuade? Even as I would hope to persuade Harvard, other universities...