Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House was Columnist George Will. He argued that the decision to redeploy the Marines, however it was put into effect, amounted to a "use of military assets as incompetent as the Iranian rescue mission or the Bay of Pigs." Calling the shift of U.S. troops a "retreat," Will charged that the U.S. may be "in the process of erasing itself from the Middle East. Another conservative pundit, the New York Times's William Safire, agreed: "We are failing because we want to settle, and the other side wants to win." In seeking to influence events from a position...
...billion by 1989. Congressmen of both parties agreed that Reagan's election-year package, calling for modest spending cuts and small revenue increases achieved by closing tax loopholes, would hardly dent the deficit. Said Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania: "The President's budget is a retreat from last year's budget plan. There is not a lot of leadership." Grumbled Congressman Charles Roemer, a Louisiana Democrat: "Reagan is like a Louisiana bullfrog: all mouth, no guts...
...poet can more easily celebrate a avoid than a fullness, more easily erect intricate monuments to Nothing than admit the existence of Something, Libby does not ask if the mystical absorption in death is not perhaps a retreat. This is the only serious flaw in a critical argument that fully acknowledges an off-ignored characteristic of poetry. The poem is only half--the reader is the rest...
...barely three months after the effort was announced, the government has quietly sounded a retreat. So many restrictions have been imposed on the campaign that it seems certain to fade away...
...avoid traffic tickets, had no idea just how much their pesos could buy until Jan. 19. That is when television newscasts showed authorities conducting a raid of two palatial homes owned by former Mexico City Police Chief Arturo Durazo Moreno. Besides rooms with views, Durazo's mountain retreat included stables, 17 Thoroughbreds, imported furnishings, 19 collector's cars, a cache of weapons and a discothèque equipped with the most advanced sound-and-light equipment inspired by New York's Studio 54. Durazo's second estate, in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, dubbed...