Word: withdrawnness
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...longer. Peer Play Groups works with youngsters 5 to 13, and Cohen and Greenbaum carefully screen families, which are referred by teachers, doctors or friends, to weed out children with severe behavioral disorders. The goal is to balance each group with kids who are outgoing and those who are withdrawn. To help them address the difficulties they face--being teased or bullied at school, feeling excluded from playground activities, eating lunch alone--a board or card game is the anchor of every session. For older kids, the game may give way entirely to a freewheeling discussion about what's going...
...large numbers of European lives. The day after an attack on Czech vehicles on Aug. 10, Czech Defense Minister Miroslav Kostelka said, "If the situation were suddenly and sharply to worsen, it is possible that measures would be taken that would involve at least some of the personnel being withdrawn." In some places, such as Karbala, forces are thin to begin with. Bulgarian troops now charged with patrolling that holy city will do so with less than half the manpower that the Americans committed to that task. Politicians in new Europe have plenty to worry about. Polish troops took mortar...
...Moscow State Circus in the English town of Folkestone were bemused by the unfamiliar sight of acrobats wearing sequinned leotards ... and hard hats. The circus' insurers said that because of new E.U. regulations governing workers employed at heights "greater than the average step ladder," the performers' cover would be withdrawn if they failed to don protective headwear...
...sure, there has certainly been some progress in the situation since the "roadmap" was launched in June - the past month has been the most peaceful since the armed intifada began in September 2000; Israel has withdrawn troops from part of Gaza and the Bethlehem area, and made a few symbolic gestures in respect of settlement outposts built without government permission. But in terms of many of the key requirements of the first phase of the "roadmap" - a Palestinian campaign to disarm and dismantle groups that have waged the terror campaign; Israeli easing of Palestinian living conditions, dismantling settlement outposts built...
According to Baer, the Saudis can do no right. Even when they sink a trillion dollars into U.S. banks, he sees only potential blackmail and warns of dire consequences if the money is ever withdrawn. Or when the Saudis help the U.S. by keeping a lid on oil prices, he labels the assistance nothing more than blood money. Baer argues, somewhat implausibly, that the monarchy's demise is imminent. In that event, he suggests--even more implausibly--that the U.S. seriously con-sider a military takeover of the oil fields...