Word: withdrawnness
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...sure. McDonald's says it has no plans to yank the disputed chairs and is working with Fritz Hansen to find a compromise (what that means exactly, it won't say). But Fritz Hansen says it has definitively withdrawn from the partnership. The furniture producer has already booked revenue of nearly $2 million for the 2,500 chairs it sold to McDonald's, and has requests for more chairs from several European outlets. These orders, the company says, will not be filled. That means fast food fans on the Continent - with its stricter design rights and copyright laws...
...Howard P. McKeon (R-Calif.) proposed the College Access and Opportunity Act, a measure that would require universities to monitor students’ online activity for illegal file-sharing. The bill echoes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) proposal, which was withdrawn in July after vocal opposition from universities and across the country. Wendy Seltzer ’96, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, wrote in an e-mail that such legislation could “limit academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between...
...anonymous leaks - for years. And then there were the two 2005 court cases that gave Mbeki cause to fire a man who had become increasingly vocal in his criticism, from the left, of the direction of the ANC government. The corruption charges relating to an arms contract were later withdrawn, and he was cleared of the rape charge - but not before a series of embarrassing revelations about some of his attitudes on women and sex. Zuma claims both trials were instigated by his enemies - read Mbeki - and, talking to TIME in January, a Zuma adviser warned, "Don't forget Jacob...
...taking Medellin's side out of sympathy. After all, Bush pushed through more than 150 executions as governor of Texas, and he's generally no fan of international courts. In fact, though the Administration is going along with the court in this particular case, it has also withdrawn from the same international accord at issue in the case. It may not seem consistent, but what Bush is interested in is achieving maximum latitude in determining compliance with international treaties and gaining the right to tell states when they do or don't have to comply with a treaty...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week announced his plan to reduce the British force around the southern city of Basra from 5,000 to 2,500 by next spring. Drawing less attention, however, is the extent to which American forces have quietly withdrawn from the rest of southern Iraq. By so doing, the U.S. is ceding huge swaths of territory to shaky provincial governments that have to face increasingly powerful Shi'ite militias very much alone...