Word: withdrawnness
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...Bush's father for two years and has been at W.'s side for six months. But Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P.'s right wing began to whisper out loud that the one-time Army artilleryman was soft on defense. Now leading the short list is retired Indiana Senator...
...stay in their religious schools and study the Talmud on election day. (And reserve the right to bring down the winner if he fails to satisfy their demands.) Also, nobody yet knows how or whether the Russian immigrants or the Israeli Arabs will vote inlarge numbers. Support given or withdrawn by each of those groups has been known to swing an election...
...ever-expanding network of blood vessels. Clinicians are now testing more than a dozen treatments aimed at halting that process, including some old-line drugs that have turned out to have anti-angiogenic properties. Thalidomide, which caused devastating birth defects in some 12,000 children worldwide before it was withdrawn in the early 1960s, is finding a new lease on life against multiple myeloma and liver cancers. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb is testing an antiangiogenic drug that was initially developed to keep cancer from worming its way into surrounding tissue. It’s also investigating whether low, steady doses...
...Last bid on eBay for a used electric chair from Tennessee, before it was withdrawn and bought by Ripley's Believe It or Not! for "considerably more...
Another argument that I have heard in the past few weeks suggests that Israel has made every effort to appease the Arabs. Israel has returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, withdrawn its army from south Lebanon, and was even willing to return the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace. The claims of the Palestinians seem like yet more demands on an endless list of claims...