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...some cases, the proxy statements facilitate productive negotiations. The Church Project on U.S. Investments in southern Africa this year withdrew 7 of 11 disclosure resolutions after the corporations involved voluntarily provided the requested information...
...seemed to rationalize assassination. Directed by Constantin Costa-Gavras, the movie is a fictionalized account of the real-life killing of an American official in Uruguay. Calling Stevens' action bald censorship, directors of as many as a third of the films to be shown in the opening festivities withdrew, leaving Stevens with a blank screen to fill-and a perhaps lasting legacy of bitterness for the fledgling film institute...
...Jurisdictional rights of both groups. It also provided that neither could "unreasonably" withhold approval of the other's events. The A.A.U. accepted the proposal; the N.C.A.A., complaining that the decision was "a complete misstatement of facts," rejected it. The conflict escalated further this year when the N.C.A.A. withdrew from the U.S. Olympic Committee and Director Byers asked the N.C.A.A.'s 664 member schools not to solicit funds for the 1976 teams...
...years, however, tension developed between the mathematicians and humanists. Once the mathematicians suggested that rather than expand its library, the institute should throw out books over 25 years old. Later they so bitterly contested the credentials of two physicists whom Director Oppenheimer wanted on the faculty that he withdrew the nominations...
Luckily, the infant had four sisters; one of them had cells similar to his. Using a local anesthetic, Good's team inserted a needle into the bone of the sister's leg and withdrew about a billion marrow cells. Then, they injected the cells into David's peritoneal cavity, relying on the cells' natural homing instincts to guide them to the bone marrow. The graft took. Graft-v.-host reaction set in, peaked and finally passed. The new cells overcame David's lethal legacy by giving him the immune system he lacked; the child, now five, is immunologically normal...