Word: withdrawnness
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...just this quiet, withdrawn style of management that allowed Johnson to rise in the ranks of the Boston Police force. It was this style of management that prompted Harvard to hire...
...order and demanded resolute action from him to end his power struggle with the Congress. But there is strong conservative sentiment in military ranks. Even if the top generals try to stay out of politics, many lower officers who are dismayed by the miserable living conditions of army units withdrawn from Eastern Europe and horrified by the economic and political chaos may feel otherwise. According to former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, recent army surveys show that two-thirds or more of the officers oppose the current reforms...
Senior Captain Mike Hill belongs to the latter. A low-key leader, Hill is quiet, but not withdrawn; friendly, but intense on the field...
...shared a joint bank account at the branch of the National Westminster Bank located near Al-Salam Mosque, where investigators say the men placed several deposits of less than $10,000. Federal agents say at least $8,000 was transferred to the account from Germany last year and was withdrawn by Salameh. One bank employee said, "We are talking about small amounts -- well under anything that would raise any kind of suspicion." Precht insists that the total account never exceeded $10,000 and was closed shortly before Ayyad's marriage last December...
...wife filed for divorce, charging in court documents that her husband was "verbally and emotionally abusive to both our minor daughters and myself." A year later the suit was withdrawn, and the couple reconciled. For a time the Griffins kept their children out of school and educated them at home, although both enrolled in a private academy last September. Griffin had no known private or public involvement with Pensacola's strident antiabortion factions until a month or so before he murdered Gunn...