Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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America does not need to retreat from international competition. Instead we need government and business to cooperate toward capturing new foreign markets. It is time to create an Economic Security Council to formulate a comprehensive international economic strategy, just as the National Security Council coordinates our security policies...
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urged the Bush administration yesterday to reconsider its ban on race-specific scholarships, saying its policy signals a retreat from equal opportunity...
Steinem: I don't want to sound like a complaining author, but there is a chasm between the important reviews and the popular response. What I wrote as a strengthening of self-authority, some reviewers called weakness -- even a retreat from activism. At first, I was very hurt, but then I realized it was partly their wishful thinking...
...agriculture society. That is neither possible nor desirable. Technology has given us advantages that we should appreciate and keep. Communication has made this world in a sense smaller, and yet it has also widened all our horizons to a point where none of us would want to retreat back to our separated corners. We cannot do without our medical advances, and I wouldn't want to live without my stereo and music...
...outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have a comfortable Connecticut house, an island summer retreat and a mildly rebellious teenage daughter. Owen is, in other words, a prime candidate for mid-life crisis. Sure enough, one arrives: "For his own part, he was tired of living for himself and those who were him by extension. It was impossible, he thought. Empty and impossible. He wanted more...