Word: retractment
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...left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's missile shield and furious that Powell had uttered the word Clinton, said, No way. The next day Powell had to step out and retract his position. He took the setback stoically, at least in public. When the dust settled, he told reporters, "I got a little far forward on my skis." But friends say he felt "as if he learned his lesson...
...left off" in negotiating a missile-proliferation deal with the North. The White House, annoyed that South Korea had just sided with Russia against Bush's missile shield and furious that Powell had uttered the word Clinton, said, No way. The next day Powell had to step out and retract his position. He took the setback stoically, at least in public. When the dust settled, he told reporters, "I got a little far forward on my skis." But friends say he felt "as if he learned his lesson...
...league-low attendance levels in the ’80s thanks to new stadiums and television revenue streams in the ’90s. The concrete monolith known as Olympic Stadium is among the dying breed of domed arenas boasting a stuffy indoor atmosphere, an artificial surface and a retractable roof that could never retract. But when team owner Jeff Loria, a New York city art dealer, decided against renewing his lease on the land earmarked for the new Labatt Stadium and failed to negotiate any English-language television deal, almost no one outside of Montreal blinked...
Sukthankar and Marouf disagree with her perception of the incident. They testified that the student was actually trying to retract his leg and that the tripping was unintentional...
...prudent for the Bush Administration, during those difficult days, to muzzle the man who'd only weeks earlier told the U.S. military that its primary mission was to build the capability to fight and win a land war in Asia. Only last week, he was forced to retract an order to halt all military-to-military ties with the Chinese: the directive was modified to require a case-by-case review of such contacts, and the error blamed on an aide...