Word: retractible
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...abrasive forthrightness more than a little unsettling. Like the circus elephant that favors the crowd with his antics, he needs a small army of men to come around after the performance and clean up the mess. Last week, under pressure from the White House, Kahn had to retract his airy statement that Arab oil producers are "shnooks...
...latest contract are still pitifully inadequate, and so workers need expanded benefits to fill the wage gap. Despite kitchen workers' requests that the University consider these concerns, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's chief labor negotiator, refused to compromise. Instead, he threatened to retract concessions Harvard had already granted in the contract...
Despite a strike authorization vote by Harvard's kitchen workers last night, the University's chief labor negotiator said yesterday he does not believe the workers will strike. He also said he may retract some of the concessions made in Harvard's current contract offer if the union wants to renegotiate the pact...
...court ordered both papers to print retractions; both refused. Said Sun Publisher Donald H. Patterson: "There is simply nothing to retract." Each newsman was ordered to pay $1,647 in court costs; the Times was weighing its response, but the Sun decided to pay. Said Managing Editor Paul Banker: "We don't want to appear defiant of the Soviet judicial system, such...
...From a parody of Erica Jong: "He fiddles with my control panel, but my landing gear won't retract, so to speak...