Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President skated over one fundamental motive for entering Haiti: his own credibility. Rather than address the painful pattern of threat and retreat that has marked his foreign policy, given him a personal reputation for fecklessness and made the U.S. seem an unreliable superpower to friends and foes, he spoke only tangentially of living up to "American commitments." Translation, in words the Administration would certainly not use: Clinton had got himself into a box by repeatedly threatening to invade Haiti in order to scare the Cedras clique into leaving. If the Carter mission could not talk them into decamping, he would...
...insurance reforms" they have touted for months. Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who commissioned the "Do it now" ads, told reporters last week that it would be better for Congress to do nothing on health this year, rather than attempt a last-minute compromise. The main reason for this retreat -- as some cynical lawmakers have known all along -- is that there is no simple way to make health insurance secure, affordable and portable. One reason is the seesaw effect: forcing down insurance costs for older Americans and those who get sick can force insurers to raise premiums beyond the reach...
...longer matter whether Clinton succeeds this week in persuading Americans to support him in his venture. For better or worse, the President has drawn a line from which he can no longer retreat, and which points inexorably toward war. There is now only one person who can change that: Raoul Cedras...
During its retreat last weekend, the PBHA cabinet voted to begin impeachment proceedings. Nero has refused to accept an August 10 board recommendation that she resign, King said Tuesday...
...vote. There's no precedent for it." So why did the Holy See have a change of heart? "The anger and the ridicule among other delegates towards the Vatican was tremendous" when its representatives slowed down the conference over the issue of abortion, says Linden. "This is definitely a retreat on their part...