Word: withdrawnness
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Anorexics, on the other hand, are the victims of very isolating problems and do not often reach out for help. "Anorexics tend to become more and more withdrawn," says Rosalind J. Carter '86, an EPO counselor...
Some Harvard students enjoy visiting and even staying at the monastery. Anne Hallward '88, an Eliot House resident, says she attends services at the monastery because it is a smaller, more intimate service. "The common stereotype is that monks are withdrawn and uninvolved with the world whereas they are freed from other things and have time to really be involved in what is going on." Hallward says that the first time she attended a service at the monastery, she ended up sitting at the head table at the dinner following the service, and, to her surprise, found that the superior...
...said the bill would "send a message to the Philippine people that the United States has withdrawn its support for the Marcos regime while continuing its support and assistance for the Philippine people...
...illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that it was time to "establish control over immigration." U.S. officials revived a policy that had been abandoned 27 years earlier: detention of illegal aliens until their petitions for asylum could be reviewed. Since...
Marcos' call for elections caught Washington flat-footed. The strongman, who suffers from a form of systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease that often affects the kidneys, had grown increasingly withdrawn from the country's plight; he had craftily evaded previous U.S. pressures for reform. Most experts were skeptical that the vote would lead to any significant power shift in Manila. But among many Filipinos, the notion that the balloting might lead to change seemed to take on a life of its own. Philippine voters might even provide the occasion for an all too rare peaceful transition from authoritarianism to democracy...