Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Ways and Means Committee is hosting a retreat in the Smoky Mountains next weekend for its members and 10 prominent economists, including Martin S. Feldstein '61, the Baker Professor of Economics, to discuss strategies on how to reduce the nation's budget deficit, participants said yesterday...
...June Sunday dawns at Doug and Audrey Graves' summer house, which sits on choice island property that has been in Doug's family for three generations. Doug, 54, is spending the weekend at this retreat, away from the city where he desultorily practices law and enthusiastically philanders. Audrey, 51, ensconced for the season and steadily tippling vodka in the privacy of her own bedroom, feels a bit edgy over the arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous...
...Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the chief Senate sponsor of the measure, said the Senate had demonstrated that "this country does not want to retreat on protections of rights for the American people...
...about the war, one group of soldiers has often been singled out as having failed more abysmally than the rest: the then segregated black units. Tales persist of black troops breaking ranks before the enemy, throwing down their weapons and fleeing, while valorous white officers tried to stem the retreat. That view, argues Blair, is inaccurate and blatantly racist. It arose, he suggests, from disgruntled and sometimes incompetent white officers, and was uncritically absorbed by Army historians. For example, Blair cites the scathing official account of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment's defeat at Battle Mountain in August...
...same time, Holmes a Court was forced to tear up his shopping list of future purchases. In February, he withdrew from a $337 million deal to buy a group of newspapers and radio stations from John Fairfax Ltd. But the most stunning move was his retreat from the long, often bitter struggle to gain control of Broken Hill, known as the Big Australian...