Word: backtracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...These scenes depart most from the old Rocky, but they're also the most deadly in the new film. Sure enough, eventually both Rocky's instincts and the need for something more exciting to end the movie with than Rocky staring at his comatose wife force Stallone to backtrack to his last closing scene--the one that make Rocky so popular...
...backtrack a bit, though, twenty years ago, X-ray astronomy barely existed. Today it is at least as important as optical and radio astronomy in helping earthbound scientists study the skies...
While other rock groups got lost in a technological doldrums which enervated their music, the Who--masterminded by Peter Townshend--stuck to the basic rock style of the sixties. Today, the financially strapped old-timers and the lobotomized New Wavers backtrack towards their roots, only to find the Who have been there all along, not stagnating but maturing, gaining depth, growing subtle...
...going to be a lot of questions on that," Reagan told grimacing aides hustling him off to the bunkers to await the fallout. He won his bet. Screeched a San Francisco Chronicle headline: REAGAN WOULD SEND GI'S TO AVERT RHODESIA WAR. Hastily, the candidate began to backtrack: "I made the mistake of trying to answer hypothetical questions with hypothetical answers." When that did not float very high, Reagan began to pass off his suggestion as in keeping with current U.S. policy: "The same thing we've been doing in the Middle East." Then he became even further...
...doctrine was rejected by most knowledgeable specialists in the arms field. The book was viciously reviewed by several influential arms specialists, a factor which re-inforced Kissinger's native insecurity and compelled him to backtrack and reverse many of the central policy recommendations. Nor were many aspects of the policy startling or innovative in themselves; the considerations surrounding the bomb and limited war had already been outlined in part by the work of Bernard Brodie, James Gavin, and Edward Teller, and the sections on diplomatic flexibility borrowed heavily from Metternich and the conferees at Vienna. The book's real departure...