Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world require him to risk lives and fortunes. For all the President's bluster and fuss over three years, he has not taken a single real step across that Rubicon of power, where there is risk, where the solution lies in moving determinedly ahead with no lines of retreat to the old comfortable campground of the status...
These various notions of education's tasks overlapped and frequently worked at cross-purposes. All were typically pursued without any clear sense of whether they were being met. Decisions to intensify or retreat from a task were not made on the basis of whether the objective seemed nearer or farther away, but on the basis of suddenly conflicting new tasks. Problems were rarely solved; they were survived...
...relations. I am sorry to say that I am not optimistic. The [Carter] Administration looks at everything from an Israeli point of view. I hope things will change, but I doubt it, especially after Carter's retreat on the U.N. Security Council vote. Every day we hear statements from the presidential candidates against the Palestinians and in support of Israeli aggression and terrorism. I can't forget that every day the Israelis are shelling usPalestinians and Lebanese, women and children. And they do it with very up-to-date American weapons. How long do you think...
...Nations vote. "Carter reacted outrageously," charges Mann. "He practically gave the West Bank to the Palestinians." Explains U.C.L.A. Political Scientist Steven Spiegel: "Carter has deflected some of the criticism from Begin. The Administration has been particularly adept at taking actions that directly challenge Israel." As Carter's hasty retreat on the U.N. vote shows, Washington policymakers are acutely sensitive to such discontent in this election year, when Jewish votes and campaign contributions could make the difference in key states...
...characters are whining, repressed squares who, at heart, disapprove of free sex, drugs, divorce and teenagers. For some reason, they are all trapped in Marin County against their will. When, after 90 long minutes, some of them flee, the film makers are overjoyed. Hero Martin Mull's retreat from an orgy to Wife Tuesday Weld is described in the same terms that Hollywood once used to celebrate the virtue of Doris...