Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moscow summit. But the consensus among Gorbachev watchers is that the most sensible course for Western nations is to wait, watch, and pursue their self-interest. Washington has an agenda with Moscow -- topped by arms control -- that it wants to save, however disillusioned it might be by Gorbachev's retreat from reform. The gulf coalition has a strong interest in keeping Gorbachev aboard. -- a conviction that was only enhanced by last week's unconfirmed reports that the Soviet military was still providing help to Saddam Hussein...
...thought economic pressure, combined with the threat of force, could do the job. They were understandably startled when he almost doubled the size of the U.S. force in the gulf last November. But that military momentum and the Security Council's deadline of Jan. 15 for an Iraqi retreat probably make any further discussion of the utility of sanctions academic. Time has just about...
...booster for Turkey and other allied preparations were meant not only to ensure a successful war effort but also to try to avert the battle by frightening Saddam into retreat. Bush's brinkmanship strategy assumes three things: 1) Saddam wants to survive, 2) he can change his mind if he thinks his survival depends on it, and 3) he will not act until the gun is at his head, with the hammer cocked and the trigger finger already squeezing...
...this New Paradigm, as some say, only a bright intellectual flourish meant to cover the retreat of the Federal Government from almost everything? "No," says Pinkerton, "it is an intellectual construct to make things work. It is a way of thinking about change and making it rational. I have never said we should cut spending. The conventional wisdom around Washington is that nothing works. Americans don't believe...
...same time, the decision ruffled right-wingers who steadfastly oppose even the mildest forms of minority-preference programs and who are already unhappy with Bush for his retreat on taxes, among other things. Jeered John Scully of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We've had everything on this except another 'Read my hips' statement...