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Yesterday morning, as expected, they both withdrew from the race, each vowing to keep fighting for the issues they believe...
Student members of the Committee on Undergraduate Education who had proposed holding final exams on Sunday afternoons withdrew the proposal at a faculty council meeting earlier this week...
...Nonetheless, when Serb forces withdrew from Kosovo at the end of the war with most of their heavy weaponry still intact, it became clear that the air campaign had been singularly ineffective in its primary aim of destroying Milosevic's military capability inside Kosovo. Still, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, "there's no compelling evidence to back up this spy claim - these allegations are based primarily on the first two weeks of the war, and it has to be said that in that phase NATO's targets would have mostly been quite predictable." More interesting, perhaps...
...campaign claimed a victory last year when Ford Motor Corp., another one of its target companies, withdrew from the Global Climate Coalition...
Courtis was concerned that overall Japanese corporate investment in high tech is falling sharply behind that in the U.S. The country's consumer spending is still trending sharply down, and demographic forces are already starting to bite. In 1998, Courtis pointed out, more Japanese retirees withdrew funds from the pension system than there were workers contributing to it. "It would be really unwise to underestimate the level of political turmoil possible as Japan reforms," he warned...