Word: withdrawnness
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...understanding that no offer, assuming that there is one out there, has been withdrawn," Carter said...
...they rushed to patent them, only to set off a firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part is under the Department of Energy), denounced the move as "sheer lunacy" that would cause paralyzing legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with his first wife, were off running their own center, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in nearby Gaithersburg...
...here 4. Seaside lodging 5. Liberal arts course, for short 6. "Dubya," as a collegian 7. Gp. that didn't monitor election in 40-Across 8. The last of them fled in '79 9. He's been stripped of immunity in Santiago 10. Hard-liner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its Parliament 11. Head of Haiti? 16. Affirmative action? 19. Sensation of the 1958 World Cup 21. New Rochelle, N.Y., college 22. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her 24. It may be blown 25. Grp. wanting less arsenic in H2O 26. New guns 'n' butter man in Times Square...
...underlined by the fact that it handed over members of Israel's proxy army to the Lebanese Army, rather than seek summary justice as many had feared. While its ideological orientation may suggest that Hezbollah would be tempted to fight on against the Israelis even though they've withdrawn, a number of factors militate against this: unlike in the south Lebanon occupation zone, fighting the Israelis on home ground is a suicide mission; provoking Israeli retribution after the withdrawal carries the danger of turning the Lebanese population against Hezbollah, and Syria is unlikely to tolerate actions that threaten to draw...
...Empire State's U.S. Senate seats, may be showing his softer side. In a move that pundits are saying is designed to demonstrate his hitherto virtually unknown ability to compromise, the mayor on Monday struck a deal to end his dispute with the Brooklyn Museum, from which he had withdrawn funding last year over its exhibition of an elephant-dung-smeared "Virgin Mary" portrait and other controversial art. In the agreement, the city will continue to fund the museum at its current level and the museum will drop a First Amendment suit it had filed against the city...