Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if many Republicans are professing that abortion isn't a partisan question, the issue was their bane this fall. Several anti-abortion Republican candidates were caught unawares by the shift in public opinion, and they could only clumsily retract their former positions. Their inconsistency may have cost them the election...
...penny. The practice smacked of dumping, in which goods or services are sold below cost. Fujitsu hoped to recoup its initial loss by having city officials eventually buy more expensive software and hardware. While Fujitsu has admitted to carrying out similar practices in the past, it offered to retract the latest bid. Even so, the government has pledged to investigate whether the company broke any laws...
...Kiszczak for the post. But Kiszczak ran into such fierce resistance from both the Solidarity opposition and some legislators allied with the Communists that frantic politicking continued right down to the wire. Communist leaders pressured their rebellious allies within the United Peasant Alliance, offering important positions and threatening to retract privileges. The tactics paid off. When the vote was counted Wednesday, Kiszczak emerged on top: 237 to 173, with ten abstentions...
Arguing that the basic proposal was still intact, Shamir called Labor's impending withdrawal "misguided." Labor leader Shimon Peres countered that "there is no reason to remain in the government," but invited Shamir to "retract" the appended conditions, which include barring East Jerusalem's 140,000 Palestinian residents from participating in the elections. The Bush Administration signaled its irritation by reviving talk of an international peace conference, an option repellent to Shamir. In a New York Times interview, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the Likud stipulations a "deadly blow," but he did not torpedo the plan...
...prospect. But her consort, Ruzimatov, literally got in her way. Defeated by the partnering in the pas de deux, in which the woman must execute many steps while appearing to move languorously, he acted like a man caught in a turnstile. In one Montreal performance, Lezhnina was forced to retract her extended...