Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, some 15,000 contras operated across almost a third of Nicaragua, their campaign underwritten by U.S. aid. Today, crippled in part by Congress's < fickle approach to supplying aid, only some 4,000 remain in Nicaragua; the rest have been forced by a vigorous Sandinista counteroffensive to retreat across the border. Nicaraguan Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra has said that the contras have "totally lost the initiative." For once, the American military seems to agree with the Sandinistas. Admits General John Galvin, commander of the U.S. Southern Command: "They need training, they need advice in terms of strategy...
...Wade Morrison worked as a pharmacist at a drugstore in Rural Retreat, Va. He fell in love with the daughter of the store's proprietor, Charles Pepper, who was a physician. When the doctor discovered the romance, he put a halt to it. Morrison then fled to Waco, Texas, where he opened his own drugstore. It was there that Charles Alderton, who worked for Morrison, invented a tasty soft drink made from 23 flavors. Morrison, apparently still hoping to curry favor with his beloved's father, named the new pop Dr Pepper. It become one of the most popular thirst...
...they will not intrude into the "buffer" days. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that these professors will take over this "buffer period". Consider Dean Ozment's admonition that faculty will not dictate to faculty how to run classes. In essence, the CUE is planning a tactical retreat doomed to failure...
...time-frame established by the rules and traditions of the college should be told to seek employment elsewhere. It is time for the Harvard faculty, the "untouchables", to respond. As a matter of fact, it is their obligation to do so. The students should not be bullied into a retreat that will literally consign the entire student body to unnecessary days of drudgery. Steven Maddox...
TIME's board expects that the trade deficit will at least halt its runaway growth and possibly retreat a bit by the end of 1986. The deficit hit a record $148.5 billion during 1985, largely because an overly strong dollar made foreign goods cheap in the U.S. and American exports too expensive in other countries. But last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace...