Word: withdrawnness
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...apparent success of the NATO ultimatum in Sarajevo has really just begun Western involvement in the country. While many Serbian guns have withdrawn from the hilltops around the capital, the larger task of crafting a solution to the fighting remains...
...skater Nancy Kerrigan -- a contender for an Olympic gold medal -- as she practiced for the U.S. championships in Detroit. The assailant struck Kerrigan in the knee with a club and fled. The attack was reminiscent of the stabbing of tennis star Monica Seles in Germany last year. Kerrigan has withdrawn from the nationals but may yet compete in the Olympic Games next month, if the U.S. Figure Skating Association decides to offer her a place on the team...
...suit was never filed. In fact, despite a meeting on the matter between Hillary and an executive from the opposing S&L, Denton learned several days later that Hillary had suddenly withdrawn from the case. Why? She had discovered that her prestigious Rose Law Firm was already representing the opposing thrift in another case. "The conflict issue should have been resolved earlier," complains Denton. Bruce Lindsey, a senior adviser to the President and an old Arkansas friend, defends the action. "Assuming this happened, I don't see why this is important or unusual," he said...
...what does Lewis -- Oxford don, literary critic, fairy-tale writer, Christian apologist -- actually know about the ordinary hurts of ordinary life? Or, for that matter, about life as most people know it? His beloved mother died when he was a child, and for decades he has lived in withdrawn bachelorhood. Snuggled up in a charming book-lined cottage with his brother Warnie (the excellent Edward Hardwicke), he is sage but distant with his students, witty but somewhat abstract with his colleagues at the high table...
...than the company intended. The spot featured dark-skinned island "natives" with painted faces, dancing in loincloths, flames belching from their mouths. African Americans immediately attacked Taco Bell's attempt at multicultural advertising. Oakland city council official Fred Ferguson described it as "plain and simple racist." The ad was withdrawn...