Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obtained by TIME last week, it wasn't for lack of trying that American forces failed to kill Saddam during six weeks of unrelenting aerial bombardment. The targeting documents, including some dated Jan. 14, 1991, two days before the bombing began, list the "Baghdad Presidential Palace," the "Taji Presidential Retreat," a few miles north of Baghdad, and the "Abu Ghurayb Presidential Grounds," near the Baghdad airport. At least two of these sites were struck by U.S. aircraft -- but through a combination of luck, ingenuity and frequent changes of residence, Saddam managed to emerge unscathed...
...evolved agnostic views shortly after leaving the scouts. Their participation in scouting did not keep them from choosing their lives and values, nor did their participation destroy scouting. What is most troubling in the Boy Scouts' new emphasis on privacy is the hint that the group serves as a retreat for parents who dislike the diverse and tolerant world of today. But that is the world their children will grow up to live in tomorrow...
...Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women feel more than entitled to shed their mates for a long weekend at a friend's vacation retreat...
...Iran's retreat from the anti-American orthodoxy of the late Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini accelerated last week. At the opening session of an international oil conference in Isfahan, President Hashemi Rafsanjani called for increased economic and political cooperation with the West and better relations with Iran's gulf neighbors. The overture was fueled largely by the need on the part of Tehran for foreign help to rebuild after its debilitating eight-year war with Iraq, which ended in 1988, as well as for long-term, reliable customers for its oil. Last year Iran launched a five-year campaign to attract...
Shows what Bob knows. When he arrives, uninvited and distinctly unwanted, at the psychiatrist's summer retreat, he finds a family just this side of dysfunctional. For Leo is totally self-absorbed. He is too full of himself, his hopes that his new book will hit the best-seller charts, his dreams that an impending visit from Good Morning America will make him a media star. He has no thoughts to spare for a wife heading into terminal recessiveness and kids heading toward overt rebellion as they try to get through to their inaccessible...