Word: retreatant
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During McArthur's appearance, he released comments from a confidential speech he gave at a retreat with President Neil L. Rudenstine and several Harvard deans in June 1992. They revealed the dean's fear that the Business School could fall behind...
...into a decisive fight in Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally surge out of the peninsula at the end of July and sweep south and east, 21 German divisions were outflanked and almost destroyed. Their retreat over the Seine became a rout, and the victorious Allies reached Paris in a week...
WASHINGTON -- Haitian Lieut. General RAOUL CEDRAS has sent word to U.S. military officials that if the U.S. tries to use force to restore ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide there would be "massive" civilian casualties. U.S. planners fear that Cedras might retreat to the hills and wage a guerrilla war that would erode the American willingness to stay...
...Retreat, some call it. Surrender, capitulation, appeasement. These are just a few of the damning words used by those who oppose Bill Clinton's decision to extend China's trading status as a most favored nation. The others aren't publishable -- but all of them are wrong. The words that better describe the President's action are realistic and courageous. The question, as Clinton said last Thursday, is not whether the U.S. should pressure Beijing to improve its abysmal human-rights record. The question is how best to do it while ensuring that America gets a piece of the action...
...another foreign policy retreat, President Clinton, under heavy pressure from business interests, announced the renewal of most-favored-nation trade status for China, despite its failure to significantly improve its human- rights record. "We have reached the end of the usefulness" of linking Chinese trade with human rights, said the President, who, echoing the Bush policies he had previously criticized, now pledged to "engage" rather than "isolate" the Chinese...