Word: withdrawnness
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Hardly a day after his inauguration, President Vicente Fox had withdrawn his troops from villages in Chiapas and vowed to send a stalled bill to congress giving unprecedented recognition to the rights of Mexico's indigenous people. And the Zapatista rebels had agreed to revive negotiations with the government. Was any of this expected...
...shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking, Russia continued to fulfill orders for fighter aircraft, armored vehicles and submarines, but it has withdrawn from the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement to take advantage of a $5 billion Iranian order for helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and new tanks and jets...
Davidson also hopes to pay the fee for David Kopay, an NFL running back from 1962-72 who publicly disclosed his homosexuality in 1975 and subsequently had several offers for coaching positions withdrawn. Kopay charges at least $1,000 per speaking appearance, the application states...
...mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...
...Upon learning that some overseas ballots were excluded (because of late postmarks, no postmarks or no witness signature) the Bush legal team filed a suit in Leon County court (where Tallahassee is located) asking that those ballots be reintroduced into the hand count. Several days later, the suit was withdrawn, after Bush lawyers were satisfied that most counties had included many of the overseas ballots. The GOP legal team maintained, however, that it was prepared to refile a suit if they learn there are counties which decide definitively not to reexamine their overseas ballots - and Friday, December 1, they...