Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet psychiatric abuses first reached the West in the 1970s, and international outrage began to build. At the W.P.A. meeting in 1977, the delegates voted to condemn Soviet practices, and pressure mounted to expel the country's psychiatrists from the organization. Just before the 1983 W.P.A. meeting, the Soviets withdrew from the association...
Ueberroth's group made a $464 million offer for Eastern last week and then withdrew the bid after being told by Texas Air that it had been topped by another suitor, identified by sources close to the situation as billionaire hotel executive Jay A. Pritzker...
...that a full-size wetlands would be ready by 1981, when the pilot project proved them right. And it worked. The combined marsh and disposal plant finally opened in 1985, costing $3 million less than Arcata's share of the megasystem's original budget. "We declared victory and withdrew from the war," recalls Hauser. Since wars require monuments, the sanctuary has ponds named Hauser, Allen and Gearheart. A saltwater slough where pelicans and cormorants gather is called Klopp Lake. Mount Trashmore has evolved into a wildflower-rich meadow. Standing by his pond, Allen recalls that first day he and Gearheart...
...past the electoral-district gatherings. Vitali Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...
...Some masters who originally felt that the experiment was adequate changed their minds," Jewett said. Jewett said he reversed his decision on Monday, after at least two house masters withdrew their support...