Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dietrich Genscher, has made some perspicacious moves, such as his detailed and reasonable plan for confederation in November. But he scared and angered his Eastern neighbors by letting them think he was leaving open the possibility that a unified Germany might press revanchist claims on parts of Poland. His retreat on the issue this spring was an occasion more for relief than for congratulation...
...course of the U.S. retreat, dozens of foreign branches have closed, and entire regions of the globe have been abandoned. Chemical Bank, the sixth largest in the U.S., earned 50% of its revenues abroad 10 years ago. Now the proportion is 17%, and Chemical has cut the number of countries where it has marketing offices from 30 to nine. Bankers Trust, First Chicago, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and other U.S. multinationals known as money-center banks have sliced their foreign presence just as dramatically. Chase Manhattan, which has been operating overseas for more than 100 years, has closed or sold offices...
While most U.S. banks are trimming their global ambitions, America's biggest banking company is showing few signs of retreat. The 178-year-old Citicorp, ! once ranked as the world's largest bank in assets, lost that title to Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank in 1986 and slumped to No. 11 in FORTUNE's 1990 ratings. As it stumbled in one market after another, the firm also lost some of its aura of invincibility, but it remains stubbornly committed to maintaining an international presence. Says John Reed, 51, the bank's youthful-looking chairman: "We want to be global...
...unemployed university graduate, for example, and say, "Why suffer? We can make you a teacher." In return the Shin Bet will start by asking something very easy: "We just need the names of your neighbors." By degrees the collaborator is drawn deeper into the web. If he tries to retreat, ^ the Israelis say, "We will expose you as a collaborator." It is widely believed in Nablus that Shin Bet agents have given drugged drinks to Palestinian women, then removed their clothing and taken pictures, threatening to shame them by showing the pictures to their families unless they cooperate. Some corrupt...
...Idaho veto and the pending one in Louisiana have not caused pro-lifers to retreat from their position on rape and incest. National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman Smith cites Pennsylvania's experience to show that women lie about rape. When the state did not require that rape or incest be reported to appropriate authorities, an average of 36 rape-related abortions a month were paid for by the state. When reporting requirements took effect in 1988, that number went down to about three a month...