drawdown

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As for a shorter-term drawdown -- which is what Taheri seems to mean by "a draw-down of the American military presence" -- Obama has never suggested that this should be delayed.

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  1. noun The act, process, or result of depleting: the drawdown of oil supplies; a drawdown of investment capital.
  2. noun A lowering of the water level in a reservoir or other body of water.

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  • In countries that maintain 'credible' or 'hard' pegs over decades, large festival related cash drawdown are accommodated by reserve shorts, where commercial bank deposits in the monetary authority shift to become circulating money. —  LBO-Lanka Business Online
  • Short term drawdown happens to all trading systems, even the best - so you need to be able to be confident in your system and trade it with discipline through these periods. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • _Even after the drawdown, a large force of as many as 50,000 troops _ about a third of what is there now _ will remain, causing heartache among anti-war Democrats who wanted a fuller pullout. —  News from www.muscatinejournal.com
  • Army Lt. Col. John Nagl, who helped craft the military's new counterinsurgency doctrine with Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus, said that while the drawdown is small, the U.S. is winning - but withdrawing too soon could undermine that success. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • Accompanying that combat drawdown will be the withdrawal of about 3,400 support forces over next several months. —  Turkishdailynews Headlines
 

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