Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marathon secret negotiations started in April with a visit by Alleghany Corp. Chairman Fred Kirby II to American Express at the invitation of Chairman James Robinson 3rd and President Sanford Weill. The talks progressed into July and were partly conducted by radio telephone between Kirby's isolated summer retreat in the Adirondacks and American Express headquarters in Manhattan. At one point, Kirby used a pay phone in a country hotel to call Weill, who told the Alleghany boss he was not "going to negotiate a billion-dollar deal on the telephone." Thus the executives met face-to-face...
...there then any hope of victory in the age-old battle against mosquitoes? Probably not, most scientists agree. If the biting really gets bad, the only recourse is to retreat, swatter in hand behind a fine-meshed screen door...
...were in some way responsible for their predicament. The encampment had come under direct attack only three days before in an eleven-hour shelling siege, and Zero Three announced that two battalions of perhaps 1,500 Nicaraguan troops still surrounded them on three sides, leaving open only the mountainous retreat into Honduras. "This place is now dangerous," he said. "They have helicopters, mortars and troops. It's only a question of when they hit us again." Commander "Max," who was supposed to have met us, was somewhere in the field "fighting with the guerrillas." When we asked...
...help is on the way. Authors George Mazzei, 42, and Letitia Baldrige, 56, are stepping into the breach of good taste with two books that offer advice on everything from how to make a strategic retreat after a sexual advance to how to handle hard rock and soft drugs at the office Christmas party...
...kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting an office affair, Mazzei recommends discretion and closed doors. He suggests that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that he saw nothing. Mazzei warns that sex on business trips is particularly hazardous. "Some nighttime behavior at conventions can take on the look of a cheap bedroom farce." But if someone cannot restrain himself or herself, Mazzei advises bringing along a companion. Or, barring that, perhaps a good...