Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administration's efforts suffered a setback when Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) announced he was "very much leaning against" confirmation and urged Tower to withdraw before a vote...
...Tower should withdraw his own name from nomination and do a favor for both the President and the country. If Tower fails to do so, Nunn and his colleagues should make that decision for him when the full Senate debates the nomination this week...
...problem of distributing the book in the U.S., Viking Penguin faced a threat by 44 Islamic countries to ban the sale of its other books within their borders. In a statement, the company insisted that it had not intended to offend anyone and did not plan to withdraw the book from circulation. Andrew Wylie, Rushdie's New York City-based agent, said the book was still scheduled to be translated into 20 languages, but publishers in France and West Germany were reconsidering plans to issue editions of their own. The Canadian government halted imports of the book while it decided...
...picture is finished because it is juice time. Says clinical psychologist Jeree Pawl, director of the Infant- Parent Program at San Francisco General Hospital: "The structured situation makes them feel powerless. It feels arbitrary, senseless and imposed because at home there is no predictability and rigidity." Confused youngsters may withdraw or rebel, prompting some teachers to peg these children as troublemakers or slow learners...
Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern, who last month urged the governor to withdraw his $1 billion proposed increase, gave Voke credit for presenting a spending plan more in line with the current "fiscal reality...