Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more money in their pockets, whether or not they actually do, tax cuts are the only punch the Republicans know how to throw. Clinton, as a White House official put it, is "boxing them into a smaller corner." Congress Daily reported that at the House G.O.P.'s aptly termed retreat in Colonial Williamsburg, Joe Scarborough of Florida called a 10% tax cut, like the one favored by the party's Budget Committee chairman, John Kasich, "a loser idea...
...will no longer teach his "Warren Court." Horwitz has chosen to focus on his other Core class, "The Rise of a Critical Movement of Law, 1920-1940," last offered five years ago and considerably less popular. The vicious bite of the monster has Horwitz on the retreat...
...Granted, staying together through these formative years will be tough, and the project of growing-up is undeniably messy. But the trouble is, there are always external conditions that will entice you to retreat into yourself, neglect your partner or otherwise sabotage your relationships. The sooner you hunker down and resist those enticements, the fewer greats will slip through your fingers...
...Harvard could retreat to its Ivory Tower, butthen they should shut down Phillips Brooks Housetoo," he said. "We want a University that...triesto make its expertise available to solve realworld problems...
...investors who like their technology stocks to offer hard assets, proven earnings and a price roughly in line with market multiples, vs. those traders who are willing to pay a much higher price for rapid growth. The latest returns favor Intel. In a tough week that saw most stocks retreat, the market seemed eager to pay 30 times this year's earnings for Intel. Its stock held steady as Yahoo lost 8% of its value. Yet both stocks still managed to outshine the larger averages, as they've done for a while...