Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retreat's schedule does not inspire all members of the department...
...retreat will give faculty members a chance to discuss the department's future without being bogged down by administrative details, professors said...
...dean has encouraged all departments to do some stock-taking," she said, and requests for new faculty might be part of the retreat talks...
...months of dwindling and retreat that follow, Ellen sees Kate, her mother, really for the first time, as more than a collection of recipes and home-decoration hints. The two women talk, read Anna Karenina together, make their adjustments with pain. These conversations are the core of the novel, and all the core it needs...
...less AIDS. Back in the 1970s, medical researchers were even boasting that humanity's victory against infectious disease was just a matter of time. The polio virus had been tamed by the Salk and Sabin vaccines; the smallpox virus was virtually gone; the parasite that causes malaria was in retreat; once deadly illnesses, including diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus, seemed like quaint reminders of a bygone era, like Model T Fords or silent movies...