Word: withdrawnness
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...even before recent twists and turns, most socially conscious types had withdrawn into the realm of Do-Goodia, where facts matter less than good intentions...
...military has been slow to look inward on Iraq. The fact that no senior officer has admitted to any serious mistakes, or been reprimanded or sidelined for tactical, operational or strategic errors, is troubling to many officers. In contrast, they point to the example of Israel, which had barely withdrawn all its troops from southern Lebanon before it launched investigations into the conduct of the war against Hizballah...
...better try--and soon. Although the last thing Americans want is a defeat in Iraq, events may be sliding in that direction and we need to shrink the fallout. The nightmare scenario could begin now, or in the next two years as troops are withdrawn, or thereafter, abruptly or slowly. To speak of defeat is not to advocate it but to prepare to minimize...
...across the school system. The survey, conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corp., a market research firm based in Cambridge, will be carried out in two phases. In the first phase, the research firm will form 10 focus groups, consisting of teachers, parents with children in the system, parents who have withdrawn their children from the system, and parents with children enrolled in private schools. The other phase will be a random telephone survey of 400 Cantabrigians. Declining enrollment has plagued the city’s schools over the past decade. In the 1995-1996 school year, the school system boasted...
March 2005: A nine-page “Draft Final Report” on general education is submitted to the Faculty Council. The report’s recommendations are in line with those of the April 2004 report. It is quickly withdrawn after being criticized by early readers for being overly vague and lacking a defining vision. By April, the Committee on General Education has pushed back the expected release date of their report to fall...