Word: regrouping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to stand for something new. Political Strategist Pat Caddell, who is advising Hart, anticipated such a situation early this year: "[If you] come in a surprise second in Iowa and on that momentum win New Hampshire . . . there's probably not enough time for the party establishment to regroup and counterattack effectively [before Super Tuesday...
...more months, after which he would have to ask Congress for an extension. When the Administration replied that this would be too strict, and some Democrats in the House complained that it was too generous, O'Neill announced that he was withdrawing the resolution in order to "regroup...
Sensing the disarray in his life and work, Wilson resolved to regroup. The former habitue of cheap apartments and rented rooms writes of buying a house on Cape Cod. He outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness...
...political season. Last year the party decided to give the states only four months, instead of five, to choose delegates to the Democratic Convention, and as a result many primaries and caucuses were moved up. In the past two elections, candidates had a month after the Iowa caucuses to regroup for the New Hampshire primary. But in 1984 New Hampshire follows Iowa by a week, and a week after that at least a dozen more states-the number could grow-will hold their caucuses or primaries. All told, upwards of 30% of the Democratic Convention's delegates will...
...with the 1,300 tons of equipment rained on them by the U.S. Nor did they show any great mastery of the battlefield discipline necessary to repel a hypothetical Corinthian advance. The 528 Honduran paratroopers dropped into the war-game zone, for example, spent two full hours attempting to regroup into companies. When one trooper was slightly injured during a faulty jump, other members of his battalion stood idly by rather than carrying him off for medical aid. In public, U.S. military officers had only good things to say about the doleful Honduran performance. But a ranking U.S. officer admitted...