Word: withdrawnness
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...number of troops pulling out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia this year at 35,000, plus 30,000 family members. About the same number will leave East Germany and Poland in 1990. Eventually, all the approximately half a million Soviet soldiers stationed in the Warsaw Pact countries may be withdrawn. "We will bring the troops home," said Moiseyev, "but no one has clearly thought what it will cost. Families will find themselves without apartments or work, children without schools...
...South Africa is consistently one of the top ones," said Patrick, one of only four returning ACSR members. "Some time ago the resolutions all asked for withdrawal from South Africa. Now that many corporations which Harvard was involved in have already withdrawn, they have crossed that line and now it is getting out and cutting all ties...
...protect her from having a feeding tube surgically inserted in her stomach and being force-fed. Though she is unable to refuse the treatment, her parents could act on her behalf. Since the Karen Ann Quinlan case, 50 courts in 17 states have considered the right to have treatment withdrawn. Nearly all have come down on the side of privacy and limited the power of the government to dictate medical care. In a peculiar legal irony, many states make it illegal to assist in suicide; yet again and again, the courts have upheld the rights of conscious but paralyzed patients...
...guarantee it, of course, particularly on the American side, because I don't know the American side well. But on the British side, I am pretty sure they remain clean. With the so-called illegals -- KGB officers using a foreign identity -- it is different. I understand they were all withdrawn from Britain because of me when I escaped. But in the 4 1/2 years since, they may have restored that presence...
...extreme, they could keep going as they would have if Sharp had withdrawn 10 days ago, and pick someone else immediately," said Milne. "Another extreme would be to say 'Let's now stand back, there's no emergency--the school will keep' and begin [the search] again at some later date, maybe September...