Word: withdrawn
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...stage can have devastating consequences. Consider the case of Sid. (Names of the children in this story have been changed.) When he was three months old, his parents left him with the maid while they took a five-week trip. Upon their return, his mother noticed that Sid was withdrawn, but she did not do anything about it. When Sid was nine months old, his mother left him again for four weeks while she visited a weight-loss clinic. By age three, Sid had still not started talking. He was wrongly labeled feebleminded and borderline autistic before he received appropriate...
...denies clozapine must be carefully handled. Up to 2% of those who take the drug develop agranulocytosis, an immune-system disorder that is often fatal if left undetected. The FDA was fully aware of this danger: the drug had been released earlier in Europe and withdrawn temporarily for just this reason. But the regulators decided the drug's potential usefulness was too great to keep it off the market. To address the safety question, the FDA ruled that Sandoz must devise a blood-monitoring system that would spot early signs of the fatal complication...
...first explorers. Those early wanderers lumped the plains into something labeled the "great American desert." In 1931 Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb wrote, "East of the Mississippi, civilization stood on three legs -- land, water and timber; west of the Mississippi, not one but two of these legs were withdrawn -- water and timber -- and civilization was left on one leg -- land. It is small wonder that it toppled over in temporary failure." The Poppers simply confirmed Webb...
Only China now backs the Khmer Rouge. Last week Beijing issued a stern rebuke to Washington for withdrawing support from the resistance coalition and vowed to continue its support. "So long as Vietnam has not withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia genuinely," said Jin Guihua, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, "China will continue to support the Cambodian people in their struggle against foreign invaders." Beijing has not softened its hostility toward Hun Sen, but there are subtle signs that China may yet shift its position. Some officials now mention that Hun Sen's grandfather was Chinese, seeming to hint...
...riled both congressional liberals and conservatives early with two disastrous nominations. His first pick for Deputy Attorney General, Robert Fiske Jr., was withdrawn when conservatives objected to Fiske's affiliation with the American Bar Association's allegedly liberal judicial screening committee. Soon after, liberals voted down Thornburgh's choice for director of the civil rights division, William Lucas, a black conservative, on charges that he was unqualified...