Word: withdrawn
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Nkomo aides also complained of heavy intimidation-from both the Mugabe forces and some 20,000 armed "auxiliaries" loyal to Muzorewa. Nor was Mugabe himself exempt from intimidation: as the election neared, he had all but withdrawn from active campaigning following a grenade attack on his new suburban Salisbury home and a remote-controlled land-mine explosion that just missed...
...President Johnson's open housing bill to get through the Rules Committee. But on the economy, the domestic policy area over which a president has most direct control, Anderson remains a conservative, a man who believes a balanced budget is the primary goal of an economic policy. He has withdrawn his support of Kemp-Roth; even his original support of such an irresponsible and dangerous a proposal, though, reveals the heart of a conservative. Anderson's much touted trade-off of a 50-cent-per gallon tax for a 50-per-cent cut in Social Security taxes is an admirable...
make him the darling of the European sporting press. To the chagrin of journalists, however, he is taciturn, bordering on withdrawn. "Sometimes the whole business is too much for me," he admits. "Only skiing calms...
Jimmy Carter's budget comes during a particularly troublesome economic period. The often ballyhooed mild recession that was supposed to slow price rises looks increasingly illusive. Some economists, including Harvard's Otto Eckstein and Washington Consultant Michael Evans, have withdrawn earlier firm predictions of recession and say that the economy may not decline this year. The Administration still forecasts a modest 1% drop in growth. Some indicators are surprisingly robust. Despite record high mortgage rates, housing is stronger than was expected. Says Kyle McMullin, a homebuilder in Bountiful, Utah: "People are getting used to the idea...
...Because most of the roles are servants and soldiers--certainly 60 per cent of the roles--a lot of it is just standing on stage for 25 minutes or a half hour without moving. Because servants or soldiers tend to be rather stiff and withdrawn, standing still is crucially important. And half an hour is long. In the last scene of [Wagner's] Lohengrin we had to stand with an 18-foot pike for half an hour, supposedly not moving--in full armor! It was boiling hot because they make the costumes look real--they don't make them...