Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basis exists in reason or justice for Israel to retreat from its present defensible borders. To his great credit, Menachem Begin understands this simple truth...
Most others would describe it as a retreat. Though Papp has raised his box office receipts at Lincoln Center to a current high of nearly $4 million, costs have risen alarmingly; this season's budget was $6.2 million, up more than a third from last season. Foundation and government support, on which Papp's ventures have always depended, has been shrinking. He has managed to cover his Lincoln Center deficits only by using the Broadway profits of his phenomenally successful A Chorus Line, which started off as an innovative musical in Papp's downtown Public Theater...
More is at stake than just Korea, however, as important as it is to Asian stability. The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal alarms Japan, which fears instability in the Korean peninsula, the traditional invasion route to the Japanese home islands. China fears that too precipitate a U.S. retreat from Asia would encourage aggressive Russian moves. The general's warning can only add to these apprehensions...
Brinkley, the protagonist in Robert Mayer's comical novel Superfolks, was sinking into complacent and oh-so-comfortable middle class, middle age life on Swansdown Island, a "suburban pocked" retreat outside New York. Beneath his happily married, proud-daddy exterior, he was helplessly wondering why his superpowers were inexplicably vanishing...
While calling a temporary retreat on welfare reform, President Carter has moved briskly to deal with another tough domestic policy problem: the near bankruptcy of the Social Security system...