Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a satisfied smile, he heads for his backyard retreat, a small walled orchard interlaced with pathways and featuring a central karate ring, and sinks into a lounge chair. He relaxes and begins ruminating, not about his athletic prowess, which is formidable, not about his critics, who are vociferous, but about his lifelong obsession...
...Boris Yeltsin's weakness. The primary reason offered by U.S. officials for keeping the East Europeans out of NATO is the fear of provoking Russia's nationalists at Yeltsin's expense. Yeltsin endorsed NATO expansion last August, but Russia's military, to which he is clearly beholden, forced a retreat. It is unclear whether Moscow's generals are seriously worried about Western encirclement or want to preserve the option of reclaiming the nations Mikhail Gorbachev set free five years ago. But the effect is the same: Yeltsin now says enlarging NATO would be a hostile act. "We haven...
After a high-profile day of duck hunting in Maryland, President Clinton flew to Little Rock for a vacation that differed markedly from his celeb-studded retreat on Martha's Vineyard last summer. The President's average-guy holiday included bowling and sitting in on a University of Arkansas basketball game. Clinton then headed for Hilton Head, South Carolina, to spend New Year's at the annual Renaissance Weekend, a social and policy retreat for caring, sensitive power brokers...
...Murphy is a tall man, 6'4" or thereabouts. He looks like he packs about 195 pounds on a slender frame, topped by a hairline in full retreat...
...retreat leaves some disturbing question marks about Clinton's leadership. Perhaps the president has decided that his domestic program and popularity are more important than these groundbreaking missions. If so, he has made a serious error in judgment. Worse, Clinton could be unaware of the ramifications of his actions. Neither alternative bodes well for U.S. foreign policy or for the future...