Word: withdrawnness
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...film begins with this radically destabilizing image of the private bourgeois existence within which Lavin has withdrawn. Since the days in the orphanage, Lavin has become an architect, now married with a wife and two young boys. Smith aims to explore the ambiguities of this man, who at one point in his life inflicted such pain on those around him. With the sudden return of his past actions. Lavin still inflicts pain on those around him, but in a radically different way. Now the camera focuses on the confusion, mistrust and terror in the eyes of his wife. She must...
...Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt's $75,000 limit and the GOP's proposed $200,000 ceiling.) Third, Clinton would allow families earning $100,000 or less to place up to $2,000 a year in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) -- with the new provision that the money could be withdrawn for educational and other family-related purposes without paying taxes. Finally, he promised to rechannel some federal funds into direct grants for job-training.Payment for all this, as predicted, would come from steep budget cuts at the department of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (where, the president said...
...NATO meeting in Brussels, the U.S. proposed creating a weapons- exclusion zone around Bihac from which all artillery and tanks would have to be withdrawn, like the one around Sarajevo. For the French and British, it was typical American naivete. Exclusion zones need ground troops to monitor the terrain, take weaponry into holding areas and report violations. The U.S. suggested policing the proposed zone with aircraft. The allies again said no. The task "requires more than rhetoric," said British Defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, and "if I may say, more than air power." Bosnia, says a worried NATO official, "has done...
Eliot did not reveal the purpose of his absence in his annual report, but a letter dated January 17, 1901, places him in Bermuda. "This island is the best winter resort I have ever visited... always withdrawn and reposefully," he writes...
...would be a significant loss," said Diana Jaeger, an employee in the Grants Policy Office at NIH. "There are no other institutions where the NIH has withdrawn expanded authority...