Word: withdrawnness
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Kiely added that if other masters had agreed to speak at the forum, he would not have withdrawn from the list of discussion participants. "The organization of the evens was not as good as it could have been," he said...
...months after a series of blunders by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, rumors of his departure had been gaining momentum. He committed his most serious faux pas last month when he stated flatly that Libyan forces had withdrawn from northern Chad, only to have an embarrassed President Francois Mitterrand admit several days later that the troops were still there. The rumors were finally borne out last week when Mitterrand tersely announced Cheysson's appointment to the European Commission, the executive body of the European Community...
Miriam Schmir is at times captivating during her almost silent performance as the withdrawn, passive Kate. Her childlike voice and preoccupied aura are unsettling as both her husband and friend fight to possess...
...rejecting smokers, overweight people and other risks; the second accepted sicker patients, including several whom the first had rejected. The second doctor's patients had to stay in the hospital an average of five days longer, and when that showed up on the hospital's computers, his privileges were withdrawn on the ground that his work cost the hospital more than insurance carriers were willing...
...Chad is once again in the hands of the Chadians," declared an exultant French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson last week. His claim: after a 15-month standoff in the sub-Saharan former French colony, both Libya and France had, by mutual agreement, withdrawn all their troops. But had they? "Substantial Libyan troops remain in Chad," snapped U.S. State Department Spokesman John Hughes. "The Libyan troops have completely withdrawn," reiterated a piqued Jean-Michel Baylet, the French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Countered Chad's President, HissèneHabré, "The Libyan aggression has not ceased. That...