Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only the rail behemoths that do well. There are 410 short lines, fragments of old roads that have been reconstituted by adventuresome rail buffs and entrepreneurs to hook customers up with the main lines. The Maryland Midland is one. Nestled in the hills below Camp David, the presidential retreat, it serves 34 customers who need coal and raw materials to turn out cement and lumber products. Paul Denton, 51, a refugee from the Baltimore & Ohio in Baltimore, Maryland, is president, commanding a fleet of 200 cars over 67 miles of track. From a tiny office in the quaint 1902 depot...
...this field is less a science than a fashion--its tenets fluctuate more capriciously than hemlines. If we are to trust these mealy-mouthed purveyors of truisms and (for the moment) take a stab at violent behavior by censoring television, it amounts to a running retreat on the real moral front...
...action films. Even in TV movies, where women dominate, the roles are boringly one-dimensional (the woman victimized or triumphant over tragedy). So attention must be paid to this Showtime movie in which seven good actresses get to emote as a group of friends who meet at a mountain retreat for three separate weekends of celebration, conversation and sisterly introspection...
...raise the fees businesses pay for such activities as mining and cattle grazing on federal land. Those proposals were originally part of Clinton's budget plan, but the President backed away from the idea after members of Congress from Western states squawked. Babbitt sees the setback as a temporary retreat and vows to raise land-use fees gradually through administrative actions and support for legislation...
...Bosnia daily grows closer to disappearing from the map, her would-be defender, the United States, is slinking into the shadows, leaving her to die. As the U.S. fades from the scene it is throwing up a smoke-screen of excuses, admissions and rhetoric to mask its retreat. Without the U.S., there is little hope for Bosnia...