Word: rear-guard
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...rear-guard rebellion of resentful smokers continues. A group of entrepreneurs based in Cocoa Beach, Florida, is planning a new airline called SMOKERS EXPRESS that will allow passengers to smoke on all its flights. In fact, Smokers Express even intends to provide free cigarettes. The founders of the airline hope to get around the Federal Aviation Administration's in-flight smoking ban by making their carrier a travel club...
Congress keeps insisting on cuts in the defense budget, but one of the biggest obstacles is the schizophrenia on Capitol Hill: members who fight a rear-guard defense to prevent the Pentagon from cutting weapons made in their districts. Last week Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, announced his opposition to the B-2 Stealth bomber. But other costly programs that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney wants to kill are being protected for pork- barrel rather than military reasons. Here are Cheney's multi-year savings estimates and the reasons they may not be realized...
...Bush's cautious "stewardship" of the nation is part of the conservatives' problem. He has pleased the right with his rear-guard defense of Reaganomics and delighted it with his invasion of Panama. But he temporizes on many other visceral issues, like China policy and abortion. Little is heard from the White House about school prayer or against the feminist agenda. Says David Keene: "The White House attitude toward the movement is to tickle its belly and hope that it doesn't get too disgruntled in public." With no national leader to serve as either totem or target, the right...
When this happens to me, I generally find myself initiating a rear-guard recovery with phrases like, "Gee, I never really looked at it that way" and excuse myself as quickly as possible by running off to a ficticious section meeting or non-existent social obligation. It used to be an unwritten rule that sex, religion, and politics were never to be discussed at the table, but nowadays these subjects make the bulk of conversation. If they were banned from Harvard dining halls, we'd all be sitting in silence...
...lurking guerrillas and what is the point of their rear-guard sniping? Officially the only Cubans left on Grenada are an embassy official and his aide, but Major General Jack Farris, commander of the U.S. forces, believes no fewer than a dozen and as many as 30 holdouts are hiding in the bush. Another U.S. military official, however, thinks the stragglers want to make love, not war: the Cubans, he is convinced, are intent only on staying with their Grenadian girlfriends...