Word: withdrawnness
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...After the film, Macapagal-Arroyo emerged smiling?with relief. Earlier, she had withdrawn Live Show from Manila's cinemas and leaned on the liberal chairman of the censor board to resign. Then she began having misgivings. The Catholic church and ultra-conservative groups lauded her decision, but her two-month old presidency found itself assailed by powerful former friends, the media and the intelligentsia. She was lambasted for succumbing to "moral terrorism," as one newspaper columnist put it. So, on Monday afternoon, Macapagal-Arroyo cleared her schedule and watched Live Show, alone. "Well, I finally saw it," she told...
...Eventually, the students found faculty allies who raised the issue on faculty floor," Epps says. And Epps says it was this move that finally led to ROTC being withdrawn from campus...
...certain defeat in the Senate (where the very idea of ratifying it was rejected 95-0), leaving it signed but not ratified. But it was reported Wednesday that the White House had asked the State Department to investigate legal means by which even the U.S. signature could be withdrawn...
...widening defense scandal threatened to topple Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and his ruling coalition government. By week's end, six Indian ministers, including Defense Minster George Fernandes, had left the government; an important coalition partner had withdrawn its support and all business in parliament had come to a halt. The scandal broke after a media company, Tehelka.com, screened videotape evidence of a widespread network of bribery, corruption and influence peddling among top politicians. In an attempt to quell the crisis, Vajpayee announced in a television address that he had set up a judicial enquiry and appealed to his political...
...Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., knows firsthand the psychological costs of going without hearing aids. "I was the queen of denial," she recalls. "It took me a long time to start wearing hearing aids full time, and I got very, very depressed. I became withdrawn. I refused to go out and meet with my friends. Once I started wearing them, I bounced back...