Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moyers also visits U.S. hospitals in which nontraditional therapies have taken hold, including one in Massachusetts where Buddhist meditation is part of the regimen for patients with intractable pain. He winds up at Commonweal, a retreat in California where terminal cancer patients seek relief from the anguish that comes with their illness. They learn, says Moyers, "that healing is possible even when a cure...
Middle-class, full-time motherhood is too often imbued with martyrdom and angst-ridden soul searching, usually a feverish attempt to justify the retreat to domesticity. This retreat may be facilitated by the fact that women do face particular problems in the corporate world...
Schindler's death should not be cause to retreat from the battle for an inclusive military. But it is a frightening and powerful argument for caution. Anyone who views Schindler's murder as an isolated event that is unlikely to be imitated should listen to the sailors whose faces recently graced television screens nationwide...
...amendment, which restricts permanent immigration to the United States for those infected with the virus that causes AIDS, passed by a 23-vote margin in the Senate last Thursday. And it has forced Clinton to retreat from his promise, saying he will only allow HIV-infected tourists into the country and continue to ban those seeking medical treatment...
These goals, however admirable, are clearly contradictory. Clinton could not accomplish all of them, and had to retreat from at least one. This has nothing to do with his particular execution of the goals--their contradiction is inherent...