Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart is hardly an old-fashioned isolationist, yearning to retreat into a Fortress America. At the debate he was careful to place himself in the "moderate mainstream" of past U.S. Presidents. He insisted that he would fulfill NATO commitments (although he has urged the European nations to foot more of the bill) and honor existing treaty obligations (although he vaguely added that some "may or may not deserve our continued support"). His plan to restructure the military to make it more "maneuverable" by, for instance, building a larger number of smaller aircraft carriers might increase America's ability...
...There is a big concern among some colleges to insure that the living facilities are more than dooms--that they are not places for students to retreat from academic life, but that they serve as bridges to the [academic] departments," said Associate Dean of Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67, who recently attended a series of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford to discuss aspects of residential life with officials of other colleges...
Explaining the trend to improve residential life. Helm says, "For a while students saw the dorms as a place to retreat from academics at the end of the day. It's the job of a first-rate academic institution to make sure that education doesn't stop in the classrooms...
...President can also disappear from TV screens when it suits him. No videotape exists of his ordering the Marines to retreat to the ships; this was one announcement he did not make on-camera. As his former political strategist John Sears says, "He walks away from more political car crashes than anyone...
...closet with printed fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other comforts. The author spends many hours reading and writing in her clothes-lined retreat. This way may lie a new departure in fashion: clothes to wear in the closet. -By MichaelDemarest. Reported by Mark Seal/Dallas and Tara Weingarten/Los Angeles