Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter also calls the upcoming move of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations the "culmination" of the Harvard's retreat from dealing with issues of race relations...
Moving the office from the center of Harvard's administration to the basement of a student dormitory, the letter charges, represents a retreat from the University's commitment to "creating a climate of inclusiveness to its students of color and its embracing of the very mission of the Foundation...
Some minority student leaders have cited a lack of support for ethnic studies and the 1993 elimination of the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs as examples of a systematic retreat by the administration from diversity issues...
...sharply. To their surprise, sales of the popular Taurus doubled, and last month the Jeep Cherokee became the first U.S.-made model in Japan to rack up more than 10,000 sales in a year. Clearly the fussy Japanese buyer who demanded a museum-quality body finish is in retreat; in his place is a worker whose income has stagnated during the country's recession and who wants good value for his yen. "What we have done," says Hiroo Tanabe, a senior Ford executive, "is to introduce a price revolution...
...experience won't change," he says. Still, he acknowledges that for men who see the club as an all-male retreat, female members would be jarring...