Word: withdrawnness
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...with assets of nearly $1 billion. Distillers makes most of the world's top-selling brands of whisky and gin and owns a host of subsidiaries. At one time these included the pharmaceutical company-since sold-that marketed thalidomide under the name of Distaval until the drug was withdrawn from the market...
...time no law in Britain holding a company responsible for the safety of its products, the law was on its side. Distillers, however, did tacitly admit some moral responsibility. The company offered to pay an average $36,000 per child on condition that the suits were withdrawn and the offer accepted as final. In 1969 Distillers proposed to settle on all parents of thalidomide children a lump...
...this week, the campaign expired with scarcely a whisper. Only two weeks before a federally-ordered election, the union announced that it had reluctantly withdrawn its sponsorship of the voting, and had dropped a claim against the store over "harassment" of a pro-union employee. The union confessed that the action was forced by lack of employee support...
...workers later in the century that would jack up pay in lowly jobs. Direct federal aid to the working poor, as contained in the Family Assistance Plan first proposed in 1969 by the Nixon Administration, could be an effective means of income redistribution, but the President has quietly withdrawn his support of the plan. For now, the most realistic hope of the poor probably lies in continuation of the strong economic advance that John Kennedy once compared to a rising tide that "lifts all the boats...
...Writing in Playboy, radical feminist Germaine Greer suggests that rape means not just taking by force but taking by fame, charisma, insincere tenderness, or hints of favors to come or largesse to be withdrawn. It is even rape when a lonely woman goes to bed with a man not because she wants sex but because she "would like to develop some sort of relationship with him." Writes Greer: "The man who has it in his power to hire and fire women from an interesting or lucrative position may extort sexual favors. A man who is famous or charismatic might humiliate...