Word: withdrawnness
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...MOST STRIKING relationship and the one which forms the core of the novel is the one between Julien, a card player and roguish art dealer who hopes to sell a forged painting on the cruise, and Clarisse, a sullen and withdrawn heiress who is married to Eric, a radical publisher who takes her for granted and treats her like a child...
...million, FDIC officials demanded that the bank issue a new report showing higher losses; U.A.B. 's board refused. Last week Adams determined from his own audit that the bank was in solvent. On its last day of business, between $17 million and $25 million in deposits were withdrawn in a run on the U.A.B. (The other 28 banks controlled by the brothers were judged to be solvent. Nevertheless, worried customers have with drawn several million dollars from C.H.'s Southern Industrial Banking Corp...
...time all the letters of recommendation were in, the offer had been withdrawn and Darsee's spectacular career was unraveling. The young man, who is still called "brilliant and creative" by former colleagues, had been caught faking research data...
...head the investigative commission, he demurred at first, citing two related cases he was involved in. Yet Kahan brought to the task powerful public and private qualifications. He is an authority in all branches of the law, noted for the clarity of his written opinions. Kahan is a withdrawn and deeply religious man: he attends synagogue regularly, eats only kosher food, and conscientiously observes the Sabbath. But in 1981, when the Chief Rabbinate tried to stop an archaeological dig in Jerusalem on religious grounds, Kahan put science first and helped to give the project the green light...
...Marines were failing to stop "terrorists" from passing through Marine positions, were part of an Israeli strategy. Its purpose: to discredit the Marines, as well as the French and Italian forces, and to reinforce the argument that the task of patrolling southern Lebanon, once the occupying armies have been withdrawn from the rest of the country, should be retained by the Israelis...