Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worth a cool $2 million. But after meeting with her editors on Tuesday, Kolata quashed any idea of writing a book. "I did not plan a book," she says. "I did not write anything that anyone could remotely consider to be a proposal, and any idea was immediately withdrawn...
...paycheck is directly deposited. Payment for my mortgage, phone bills and electric bills is automatically withdrawn from my bank account. I make credit-card payments over the phone. When I pay my taxes, my refund is directly deposited. In my wallet I have one ATM card and one credit card. Managing money never has to be any simpler than this. And the average person isn't going to carry an e-cash card. ANDREW J. KIWIET Forest Park...
...auction of John F. Kennedy memorabilia opened Wednesday, but some items were withdrawn to settle disputes with the National Archives and Kennedy's children, and some valuable lots went unsold. The sale at New York's Guernsey's auction house was sparsely attended, and several of the highest-priced items (which carried only "estimate upon request" designations) failed to sell. These included a Tiffany & Co. Cuban missile crisis calendar paperweight. An asking bid of $300,000 dropped to $100,000 but still failed to draw any interest. The evening's top seller was the Presidential yacht, the Honey Fitz, which...
There was something surrealist in the swiftness of the last catastrophe--a drama made doubly bitter by the fact that most Americans had made their emotional peace with Viet Nam. The P.O.W.s had come home, the last soldiers had withdrawn. The nation turned, not happily, to other preoccupations--to Watergate and to coping with recession and inflation. But since Viet Nam had deceived Americans so many times before, it was perhaps fitting that it should be the only war they would have to lose twice...
...deliver to Congress on March 30 about the military threat Cuba poses to the U.S. The report, ordered by Florida Senator Bob Graham, must detail whether Havana could attack American territory with chemical and biological weapons. Why the worry? Cuba has no such weapons, and the Pentagon has withdrawn forces from southern Florida because it no longer considers the island a military threat. But the report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian MiG-29 jets, which Moscow delivered during the cold war, that...