Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gould is attempting a retreat from publicity. "The most important thing in life is my research and my students, and I have to keep my time for that," he says. But recently Gould was again in the news with the CBS show "60 Minutes" doing an episode...
Arms-control specialists remain divided over the proposal. Opponents, notably Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, have denounced the framework approach as a shameless retreat from the U.S.'s original ambitious goals and, worse, a capitulation that would reward the Soviets for their stonewalling and their walkout. The State Department rebuttal has been that START is at a dead end and the U.S. must show...
...troops massed near the border. After eleven hours of heavy fighting, the Iranians claimed to have broken through Iraqi lines 100 miles west of Baghdad. Iraq conceded that an attack had occurred but said that the Iranians had been "crushed" by a counteroffensive and were in retreat...
...worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that his biggest indulgence is just being himself...
Unfortunately, the condition of many Blacks did not improve during this period. The Reagan Administration has virtually ignored the problem; indeed its retreat on civil rights enforcement and its budget cuts have exacerbated it. Yet even if a sympathetic Democrat such as Walter Mondale were to win office in 1984, the outlook for the Black poor still appears quite bleak. For the reinstatement of the traditional civil rights policies will probably not affect a large number of Blacks who will most likely remain below the poverty line, locked outside the mainstream of American society...