Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democratic candidate would qualify as a Japan expert, but all, aside from Tsongas, have visited the country. In fact Harkin lived in Japan for 18 months as a naval aviator during the 1960s, and Brown made pilgrimages both as Governor and, more recently, as an acolyte in a Zen retreat in Kamakura...
...brought the retreat and virtual disappearance of the American left as a political, as distinct from a cultural, force. It went back into the monastery -- that is, to academe -- and also extruded out into the art world, where it remains even more marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable and very well-subsidized industry arose, hunting the lefty academic or artist in his or her retreat. Republican attack politics turned on culture, and suddenly both academe and the arts were full of potential Willie Hortons. The lowbrow form of this was the ire of figures like Senator Helms...
...before we forget, there are those "time-honored principles of war." The key one in the minds of the planners, even if it isn't included in the list, is "the complete absence of compromise." No retreat, baby, no surrender...
...weeks, fighting had raged in the heart of the capital of Tbilisi between troops loyal to Gamsakhurdia and forces determined to end what they claimed was his dictatorial rule. By early Monday morning last week, after enduring heavy shelling, Gamsakhurdia finally decided it was time to retreat. Accompanied by his family and loyal supporters, he slipped out of the underground bunker in the parliament building where he had been living in a state of siege and fled to the neighboring republic of Armenia...
...past, the bulls have been a good bet. The last time the Fed pushed down interest rates to end a recession was in the summer of 1982, which quickly sparked a Wall Street rally. Four months later, the economic slump was over. But bulls know when to retreat too. If investors see no recovery by summer, watch out for at least a temporary comeback of the bears...