Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eugene Brune, mayor of Somerville, said he believed the proposed ordinance was the reason the application was withdrawn and the company was "looking elsewhere...
While Nkomo may feel resentful over his demotion, he has no constitutional grounds for complaint: having captured a mere 20% of the parliamentary seats in the independence elections that were held last February, his party had only been included in the government by invitation. Nor was that invitation completely withdrawn last week. Still anxious to mollify the Patriotic Front forces, the Prime Minister appointed a Nkomo stalwart, Josiah Chinamano, to head the Ministry of Transport. The Patriotic Front now holds five portfolios in Mugabe's 26-member Cabinet-not a bad deal for an outvoted minority...
This is the way Eva's world ends: not with a bang but a simper. She is an aged immigrant, almost totally withdrawn from husband and family, living immersed in memory and in imaginary dialogues with great literary and political figures of history. Stricken by cancer, she is taken on a farewell visit to children and grandchildren, reaching a final resting place in the San Francisco pad of a hippy granddaughter. Eva finds in the girl an echo of her own past, and she makes some inarticulate efforts to pass on her heritage. But as played by Lila Kedrova...
Ricardo Marasigan, a spokesman at the Philippine embassy, refused to speculate on the reasons for the withdrawn endowment...
Refusing to comment on the reason for Marcos's withdrawn pledge, Eliot said, "that kind of speculation is unnecessary and part of the past because it's strictly the Philippines' business only...