Word: retreat
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There was evidence last week that Congress also will compromise if it has to, or even retreat. Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee and a zealous critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve Board, introduced a pair of bills to make the Fed more of a "creature of Congress." One was a reaction to Chairman Arthur Burns' tight-money policy in 1974; Reuss called for increasing the money supply at an annual rate of 6% with the aim of bringing down interest rates. His second bill would establish a mandatory credit allocation program...
FROM HIS sabbatical retreat in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., Nobel laureate James D. Watson, professor of Molecular Biology, offered further incentive for dumping on the kid, pressing Dressler to "stop working on this at once and turn your attention to something else." Of course, Watson was no impartial observer. He, Dressler and others were working from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted...
...enough to stimulate a real recovery and condemn his energy program as adding arbitrary and unnecessary burdens on the already reeling economy. Yet Ford was willing to compromise even as he fought for his program and carefully avoided a fixed position from which he could not retreat...
Sylvan Scene. The plot is wafer-thin. It centers on the idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
...Library advisory board who will decide where and when to place the museum. If Harvard and the council can't generate the support to circumvent community opposition to the museum or at least to the library and institute the Kennedys will probably say the hell with it and retreat to another site. It was Jackie Kennedy Onassis who favored the subway yards site and not Jack, who preferred the B-school; and the legitimacy of Jack's martyrdom got her the land in the first place. She has worn out that legitimacy, as even the Kennedy's old Brattle...