Word: retreatant
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Future Congresses will be more likely to beat a hasty retreat at the first sign of voter discontent with the package because it did not enjoy universal support from the Democratic party...
...biggest retreat he has made so far to achieve passage of his enormous budget package, President Bill Clinton abandoned his complicated $72 million energy tax to placate Senate Democrats who opposed it. Clinton's almost instant capitulation provoked an outcry among Democrats in the House, who had already taken the political risk of voting to approve Clinton's BTU-based energy tax. "I think we've been left hanging out on a plank, and I must say I don't like it," lamented Colorado's Patricia Schroeder. Though the White House still wants some kind of energy...
This is not the first time a successful high-tech company has tried to fully automate the contemporary office. Xerox tried during the 1960s and '70s using networks of word processors, printers, telephones and copiers. After losing a bundle, a humbled Xerox staged a full retreat back to paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried...
Gergen befriended the Clintons nearly a decade ago at "Renaissance Weekend," an annual New Year's retreat on Hilton Head Island in which an eclectic group of influential people swap stories of personal growth along with their business cards. Both policy wonks, the two men never heard a debate they didn't want to join, and tend to forget that the clock is running. "Just like the White House has 'Clinton Standard Time,' " said a U.S. News staff member last week, "we have Gergen time...
Finally, minority organizations may risk losing the support of non-minority students if they retreat too far into themselves. Should the BSA be a social organization for Blacks, or an organization that spreads interest in issues of concern to Blacks? Lewis says, "If I'm in it, it's for the other people in the organization rather than for the greater cause...