Word: withdrawnness
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...withdrawal announcement was characteristically short and low in energy, just three sentences long: "Today I have withdrawn my candidacy for President of the United States," Thompson said in an e-mailed statement. "I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort. Jeri and I will always be grateful for the encouragement and friendship of so many wonderful people...
...secret that men with angry, explosive personalities are at a higher risk of a heart attack. But they're not alone: Nervous, withdrawn and chronically worried people are courting coronary problems, too, according to a new long-term study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Of 735 American middle-aged or elderly men who had good cardiovascular health in 1986, those who scored highest on four different scales of anxiety were far more likely to suffer heart attacks later in life...
...heat on a Western-leaning Georgia, since September 2006, by severing mail and transportation links between the two countries, closing Russian markets to Georgian wine and other key exports. Many Georgian businesses got closed in Russia, with Georgians rounded up and forcibly deported. The Russian Embassy was withdrawn from Tbilisi, coming back only in January 2007. Georgian ships were denied the right of entry to Russian ports. Natural gas prices, raised from $110 up to $235, sealed the tight economic blockade clamped on Georgia...
Under El-Erian’s watch in fiscal year 2007, Harvard’s endowment earned returns of 23 percent, ballooning from $29.2 billion to $34.9 billion, even after $1 billion was withdrawn to underwrite nearly a third of the University’s operating costs...
Under El-Erian's watch in fiscal year 2007, Harvard's endowment earned returns of 23 percent, ballooning from $29.2 billion to $34.9 billion, even after $1 billion was withdrawn to underwrite nearly a third of the University's operating costs...