Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, the battle between Microsoft and Symbian may have been resolved by the marketplace. Hand-held-computer makers could offer machines with Symbian's software in hopes of making them more appealing to consumers with mobile phones. Or the mobile-phone industry could beat a retreat and adopt Windows CE to ensure that their devices link up easily with existing desktop PCs. Either way, it's likely that the nations of Europe will be communicating with a single standard-- even if they are not yet talking with a unified voice...
Moreover, tables empty in summer as studentshead home and residents retreat from the city...
...rule out the possibility that he might just decide to throw up his hands and go. But everything in his past insists otherwise. In much of his political life, whether it involved welfare reform, tax cutting or health care, Clinton has been famously open to compromise and tactical retreat. Where he gets single-minded, however, is in matters involving his survival...
...real power but seemed prepared last weekend to surrender many of his presidential prerogatives. The communists have called for currency controls, re-nationalization and printing more rubles. On the weekend, however, Chernomyrdin went on TV to reassure Russia--and probably the West as well--that there would be no retreat from market economics. "We have already joined the world economy, and there will be no return to the past," he declared. The future, though, remains deeply uncertain...
Then what? There are plenty of dire predictions. Moscow is muttering that Yeltsin might declare a state of emergency, a move that would probably be seen as a retreat from democracy. Some are worried that Yeltsin might form a government of national unity that would take in communists and fascists and bring reform to a halt or put it into reverse...