Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Department of Justice, which has a keen sense of law-and-order, smokers now retreat to the photocopying rooms in order to relax with a soothing cigarette. And how does that affect working conditions? "We don't do any work here anyway," cracks one bureaucrat. At the Department of Transportation, where things are supposed to move, smokers can puff away in half the rest rooms and corridors, but at the State Department, which has never been known for hasty decision making, nobody is quite sure where you can do it. "The air hasn't circulated in here in 20 years...
...company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...
...years ago," said Richard Arrington, the black mayor of Birmingham, where Bull Connor once ruled the streets with his attack dogs and fire hoses. "But in the past seven or eight years racial progress has been at a standstill, and I'm inclined to say in a slight retreat...
...Washington, the National Security Council informed Ronald Reagan of the kidnapings at the President's Camp David retreat. "The President is concerned," said a White House spokesman. "We hold those individuals who took the hostages responsible for the safety of the hostages, and call for their immediate release." State Department officials, meanwhile, re- emphasized that all of Lebanon is dangerous for U.S. citizens. Washington, they said, cannot guarantee the safety of those few Americans who continue to live there...
...year's seemed among the most intense. It may also have been the most fickle. As quickly as it became a hot issue, the drug crisis became, in the press and in Washington, last year's trend. In his fiscal-1988 budget plan last week Reagan beat a quiet retreat: he proposed a slash of $913 million, to about $3 billion, in funds for fighting drug abuse. Grants to state and local governments for drug law enforcement would be eliminated, and funding for drug education and treatment would be trimmed. Said Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston, S.C., who heads...