Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspending the peace talks, Israel will ensure that any effort to resume the negotiations will again be met with violence. If the talks continue, however, the terrorists' acts will be rendered futile. Negotiating with terrorists is "obscene," as Krauthammer says, but it is far better than a full retreat, which would mean the terrorists win. JONATHAN FONTENOT Lake Charles...
Nonetheless, the A.M.A. seems reluctant to retreat. At first Dr. Thomas Reardon, chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees, argued, "The A.M.A. has moved into the public health arena with much greater force, and that takes money." But the criticism must have hit home. Late last week, Reardon says, the A.M.A. decided to review several aspects of the program, including "the exclusive nature of the contract." If only belatedly, then, the A.M.A. seems poised to apply Hippocrates' maxim: Above all, do no harm...
...poverty may be over, its soldiers in disarray and retreat, but the Rev. Floyd Flake, who is a departing member of Congress, seems not to have got the news. Flake's Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Queens, N.Y., with 9,000 members and a towering new $23 million cathedral, operates a government-funded social-services network that would be the envy of many municipal governments. The church's 30,000-sq.-ft. social-services center houses a city-funded walk-in clinic and federal Head Start classrooms at street level. On the center's second floor are a city...
...officers will meet with program leaders on Sept. 6 and 7 while on their annual retreat...
...fact, workers like Liang look back with misguided longing to the days of Mao for their salvation. If they had their choice, they'd retreat to 1955 rather than grapple with today's complicated reforms. "We respect Mao, not Deng," says Liang. "Deng forgot about us." The people of Shenyang resent the way the city has been left behind by the capitalist advances in Shanghai and Guangzhou. At Liang's old workplace, his friends sit around all day grousing, drinking tea and reading the papers until the shift whistle blows. "We call it the nonworking day," he says. "The managers...