Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland and Hungary drift as far as they want? Even Gorbachev might not know the answer to that question. What seems likely now is that Moscow may tolerate Poland's political pluralism and Hungary's economic experimentation, but it will be tempted to intervene if either seemed about to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and expel Soviet troops...
Overnight the savage massacre in Tiananmen Square shattered Hong Kong's wary faith in that future. Thousands donned funeral garb to mourn the dead of Beijing. The stock market plunged 22% in one day in a paroxysm of lost confidence. Chinese flocked to mainland banks to withdraw their money, as much in anger as in fear. And the largely apolitical people of this freewheeling monument to commercialism discovered a newfound political activism...
...Once in, you can stop making new contributions -- but it's expensive to get old ones out. So don't think you'll just pocket that 12% for a year and then move on to something else. If you withdraw your money, Amex charges a penalty, 7% the first year, which gradually evaporates in seven years. But there's also the 10% IRS penalty on withdrawals before age 59 1/2 and, whatever your age, the income tax due on the interest your funds have earned...
...Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights--are "compliance reviews" to determine whether Harvard and UCLA are adhering to Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That legislation prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin, and allows the federal government to withdraw some or all funding from institutions found in violation...
...Corporation and Board of Overseers approve a report calling on companies to withdraw from South Africa. They do not, however, modify the current University policy of divesting only from those companies that do not follow the Sullivan Principles of selective divestment. Activists, members of the faculty, alumni and the student advisory committee to the Harvard Corporation complain that the step is merely symbolic...