Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation of DNA research based upon these scientists' recommendations, and documents these scientists' retreat from the principle of DNA research regulation. Lear is at his best when describing the intricacies of the political maneuvers. He demonstrates a flair for anecdotes that succinctly capture a particular scientists's personality or motivation...
They have a tendency to assert that people don't live as well as they used to, or as carefully as they used to, or as high as they used to. They instinctively retreat to the past for their heroes. The next generation, the storytellers' audience, is left to figure out which characters are worth emulating, which adventures are worth repeating, and which are best dismissed as the folly of another time. The storytellers can't know what will be of use; it is not theirs to act upon the lessons their history offers...
...recovery and still expect to run for governor three years later--does not intrude on his creative analysis. Like a losing football coach who somehow manages to take credit for the other team's victory, Duryea has been able to double-talk and double-think his most notable legislative retreat into a key win--and he is getting away with it. The most recent New York Post poll shows Duryea leading Carey by 5 per cent...
...demonstrate their anger, settlers from Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights snarled traffic in Jerusalem last week by staging a massive tractor drive-in. Later, a vociferous band of 2,000 protesters marched outside the Knesset waving banners that read WE BEG YOU NOT TO RETREAT FROM SINAI and BEGIN: ALWAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO RELY ON. Among the picketers were members of the 20 families that inhabit Ne'ot Sinai, one of 15 communities along the Mediterranean coast. The Ne'ot Sinai group was particularly angry with Begin: during a visit last year, he asked them...
...Syrian force in the area returned the fire and forced the vessels to retreat in the fourth straight day of fighting. After yesterday's exchange, police reported that the casualty toll had reached 1000 killed and 1700 wounded after eight months of battles for control of Lebanon...