Word: retreatant
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...Angeles. Lange regularly contributed to the pages of Vogue and Life, but his true passion was the "clothing-optional" movement. He began publishing pronudist screeds in 1961 and in 1967 opened the Elysium Institute in L.A.'s laid-back Topanga Canyon. Daring in its day, the in-the-raw retreat is now such a community fixture that Lange was named citizen of the year by the local chamber of commerce...
...facing the enormous political risks involved in slashing Medicare and an array of other sacred-cow government programs to balance the budget and pay for the tax cuts Gingrich has termed the "crowning jewel" of the Contract with America. Indeed, there was cold sweat at a no-press-allowed retreat in suburban Virginia at week's end, where G.O.P. House members had to go to secure conference rooms to read numbered copies of House budget chief John Kasich's blueprint for slicing an astonishing $1.4 trillion from federal spending over the next seven years. The plan would eliminate the departments...
Both in Russia and in the U.S., our partnership is just developing as something in our national interest. Both Russian and American politicians should resist the temptation to find an "easy" solution and retreat into isolationism. I know a neo-isolationist mood is strong in the U.S., based on the assumption that it is easier and also more profitable for America to resolve world problems singlehandedly. We also have a similar political tendency-"ultrapatriotism." Therefore, our common task is to lead the Russian-American partnership beyond internal political struggles. This is particularly true during election campaigns both here...
TIME has learned that House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio) is circulating documents in GOP circles that dramatically fulfill his promises of radical federal budget cuts. The package, which Kasich began showing House members under tight security Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming...
TIME has learned that House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-Ohio) is circulating documents in GOP circles that dramatically fulfill his promises of radical federal budget cuts. The package, which Kasich began showing House members under tight securi ty Thursday at a House Republican retreat in Leesburg, Va., includes elimination of three Cabinet departments (Education, Energy and Commerce), the General Services Administration and scores of government programs. It also calls for sharp cuts in foreign aid, a five-year moratorium on new federal buildings and limits on cost-of-living increases for military pensions. "People have already started screaming...