Word: withdrawnness
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...make the demands that family members do. Friends generally won't be asked to give money or nursing care," says sociologist Jan Yager, author of Friendshifts. "They are probably going to mainly have fun together." On the other hand, she notes, "because it's optional, friendship can be withdrawn more easily than family relationships...
Executives at Lucent Technologies, the New Jersey telecom-equipment maker, couldn't help noticing this year that CEO Richard McGinn had morphed from an outgoing, hands-on boss who ate lunch in the cafeteria to a withdrawn figure bunkered in his office. Perhaps retreat was in order. After three otherwise successful years at the helm, McGinn had committed a series of screw-ups. Among them: missing out on optical-equipment investments that Lucent's competitors later cleaned up on and avoiding layoffs in spite of declining sales. Two weeks ago, he delivered really bad news: the current quarter's revenue...
...while the leaders around Arafat, in between saber-rattling, insist that peace talks can be resumed if the Israelis withdraw their forces to their pre-September 27 deployments, those leading from the street, such as Fatah activist Marwan Barghouti, insist they'll fight on until Israel has fully withdrawn from the West Bank and Gaza. Implicit in the current violence, therefore, is a power struggle within Palestinian ranks. And with Arafat aging and ailing and his immediate aides unable to command the loyalty of the streets, there's little cause for optimism that the Oslo Accord will be revived...
...Laden's network, by contrast, is more like a state unto itself. Bin Laden's personal fortune of hundreds of millions guarantees its liquidity, and when the hospitality of a government is withdrawn, as happened in the Sudan, he is able to simply move his headquarters to another location, preferably a friendly or failed state...
...face. At first you think it's just a case of bad lighting. But soon you realize this is scar tissue--not enough to turn him into a grotesque, but plenty to explain why his Eugene Simonet, a junior high social-science teacher, is prissy, overintellectual and socially withdrawn...