Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apartheid is abhorrent--and feigns a deep concern about American corporate support of the South African status quo. At the same time, however, it advises Harvard to do as little as possible to pressure companies in which the University owns stock to reform their employment policies, and less to withdraw from the country entirely...
...American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don't feel good when I read about hallowed high school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them as it did in high school, where they were walking idols. But the Beaulieus and the Cuccias walk away disillusioned and disenchanted, swallowed up by an intellectual environment...
...previously incurable, doctors and lawyers are for the first time tackling the question, "Who, if anyone, should pull the plug?" In the case of an incompetent patient--such as the very young, the unconscious, or the mentally retarded--who should take on the awesome responsibility of deciding whether to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment...
...series of punishing economic blows and now faces the threat of more to come. First, Saudi Arabia appeared to renege on its year-old promise to buy 50 U.S. F-5 fighter planes for Egypt at a cost of $525 million. Then Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both threatened to withdraw their $1.6 billion in petrodollars from the Central Bank of Egypt...
Despite his experience with the tumultuous politics of inter-war Europe, Deutsch says he never was tempted to withdraw from politics or to resign himself to cynicism. "I find the world a highly imperfect place in which to live, but you can always make it a little more perfect...