Word: withdrawnness
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...ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to save some $500 million in the fiscal 1984 budget by sharply cutting the personnel of the Public Health Service. All ten regional offices of the Public Health Service would be abolished. The Stockman directive will be effective unless it is withdrawn by the Administration or vetoed by Congress...
Other factors also played somewhat less of a factor in going ahead with the sale. For one thing, financial officers said, there has been some rumbling in recent years to curb the tax-exempts status of universities' bond-welling. The fear that "tax-exempt borrowing procedures would be withdrawn," sometime, was certainly weighed in the University's decision, O'Brien said But he added that Harvard "wanted to make sure that this [option] wasn't precluded...
...what appeared to be a conciliatory gesture, Gaddafi announced before the scheduled meeting that Polisario representatives had "voluntarily and temporar ily" withdrawn both from the rescheduled summit and from a preliminary gathering in Tripoli of African foreign ministers. In response, 44 national delegations turned up for the initial gathering. Then the posturing began. In a welcoming speech, Gaddafi exposed his territorial ambitions in northern Africa by proposing to abandon one of the O.A.U.'s most sacred principles: the inviolability of the national borders inherited from Africa's former colonial powers...
...radical impression that if the young lovers had only appealed to their families for help, unexpected understanding might have Everett the disaster. And whether any invention of the sort comes from the script or not-presumably not-it comes through clearly when played. Both lovers appear awkward and withdrawn at home. becoming human and open only to each other...
...Foreign Minister Elie Salem reportedly told his Italian counterpart, Emilio Colombo, that the Lebanese army will have to be enlarged from 22,000 men to 50,000 or even 60,000 in order to provide for the country's security once the Syrian and Israeli occupiers have been withdrawn. Such an increase cannot be achieved quickly. Gemayel could fill the army's ranks with troops from the Christian militias that solidly support him. But that could prove disastrous at a time when he is trying hard to reunite the country. The Reagan Administration at first appeared to take...