Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...referendum, which it would almost certainly win. That would allow the President to let the matter be settled by popular will without forcing him explicitly to back down from the decision of April 13. Yet even that solution would be seen as a compromise, perhaps even a retreat -- concepts that run counter to age-old tradition in South Korean public life...
Democrats begin every call for retreat with the ringing assertion that the Persian Gulf is indeed a vital American interest and the United States will not be run out of the region. But they then set conditions for U.S. action in the gulf that are impossible to meet. The favored technique for doing this is to demand that the United States not act alone. Where are the allies? they complain. After all, it is their oil and not ours that is flowing through the gulf. They should join us in any military action. If they don't act, why should...
...most foreign policy crises, such is the case. The only country in a position to act is the U.S. To fob off the responsibility on allies, who we know in advance are in no position to act, is to declare, in the most pious multilateral tones, an American retreat...
Those advocating retreat, in its various camouflages, ought not to be debating whether our defense budget should be $303 billion or $289 billion. Thirty billion ought to be quite enough to maintain all that their foreign policy would require: a few nuclear missiles and a Coast Guard to patrol the Florida Keys...
...case that led to last week's ruling had its obscure origins in a 1978 flood that leveled the Lutherglen retreat and recreational center along the Mill Creek in California's Angeles Crest National Forest. To prevent possible future disasters, Los Angeles County banned all reconstruction in the area. The center's owner, the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale, took exception to the safety measure. Claiming that the county's action violated the Fifth Amendment, the church sued for compensatory damages. Almost eight years after that suit was initiated, the high bench, by a 6-to-3 vote...