Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husband live in a comfortable Tudor-style house in the genteel Forest Hills Gardens section of Queens. They also maintain a beach house on Fire Island and a winter retreat in St. Croix. A full-time housekeeper-cook relieves Ferraro of the more onerous domestic chores, but she clings ritualistically to her weekly grocery shopping. The couple's three children, ages 22, 20 and 17, attended expensive prep schools (Choate, Spence) and private colleges (Brown, Middlebury). Ferraro, who flies home from her small Washington apartment every chance she gets, is very close to her husband of 24 years. Tall...
...RETREAT...
...reappear. He puts on weight. From time to time he descends to the village, gets drunk, and returns muttering that Jews are liars, cheats and money grubbers. But despite this Gentile blustering, the fact is that he has become one of the weakest and most Jewish of the retreat's inmates...
...Retreat there is no mention of Nazis or prophecy of war. Most of the inmates have come to the mountain because their lives have fallen apart: they have lost jobs, perhaps, or were embarrassments to their families. They are uneasy, but not really frightened, and certainly not indignant. No one, including the leader Balaban, thinks of protesting against abuse and prejudice. Other groups have defects too, admits one guest who is stalwartly trying to rid himself of tainted habits by the prescribed self-help routines. "But their defects are healthy. People say that the Austrians are heavy drinkers. Of course...
...dark days of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Jimmy Carter left a week-long retreat at Camp David with a plan to free the U.S. from its bondage to OPEC oil. He proposed creating an $88 billion Energy Security Corporation that would encourage alternative energy projects, primarily through loan and price guarantees. The ambitious goal to produce the equivalent of 2.5 million bbl. of oil per day by 1990. When Carter signed the Energy Security Act on June 30, 1980, he declared, "The keystone of a national energy policy is finally being put into place...