Word: withdrawnness
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...treatment tool, friends is helping to control childhood distress. For evidence, there are the favorable results of numerous trials - and there are children like Maddison, who was eight when her Dad left home to live with one of her Mum's friends. Previously outgoing, she became increasingly withdrawn and diffident as she struggled with feelings of guilt and confusion. Steered toward Barrett by the family's G.P., Maddison thrived in the friends program. One afternoon last week she sat doing her homework at a desk at Pathways, where her mother, Vikki, works at the front desk. Now 11, Maddison explained...
...ambushes to frontal assault, suggesting that the Iraqi security forces may struggle to match the firepower, organization and perhaps also the commitment of the insurgents. Fallujah, of course, had been something of a model for the plan to turn over security responsibility to Iraqis, with U.S. forces having withdrawn from the center of town. By shattering the morale and confidence of the Iraqi forces and highlighting their vulnerability, the insurgents hope to keep U.S. forces engaged in densely populated urban areas where they make easier targets and where counterinsurgency actions always risk alienating the local population...
...preregistration debacle. For years, course prediction methodology has not been accurate enough to allow departments to reliably hire and train TFs far enough in advance —leaving TFs in a precarious job market and students in precariously-led sections. The solution offered by the administration last spring (withdrawn after wide criticism) was forcing students to choose their courses a semester in advance. But that system did not account for the inevitable enrollment swings that would have resulted from the liberal add/drop period it proposed in place of shopping, and the plan would have worked to the detriment...
Meanwhile, the bill establishes a program to allow workers 64 and younger who buy insurance with high deductibles to shelter income from taxes by putting money in special savings accounts. Earnings can be withdrawn tax free as long as the money is used for health care. Republicans believe the accounts will help workers buy plans that better suit their individual needs and accumulate tax-free money to pay for health care in retirement. Democrats argue that the program is a boon to the wealthy who can afford to put money aside. --By Douglas Waller
That's if you can find the house in the first place. The U.S. armed forces' awesome technology is of limited use in a low-intensity war, in which guerrillas can attack at a time and place of their choosing. Already the Pentagon has withdrawn space-age systems like the Global Hawk high-flying drones from the conflict, although they could conceivably be used to stop foreign fighters sneaking into Iraq. "Too much of our stuff is too complicated for what is happening in Iraq now," says an Army colonel. "All the smart bombs are worth nothing...