Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, the President is about to propose some far more important steps that he long resisted, notably a hold-down in military spending and some kind of stand-by plan to raise taxes if necessary to shrink gargantuan deficits. Nonetheless, these measures amount to much less than a wholesale retreat from Reaganomics. The President, indeed, sees himself quite accurately as making the minimal concessions necessary to keep a rebellious Congress from attacking the core of his program, chiefly the income tax cuts, the social spending rollback and the big military buildup. For that matter, the change in tone is also...
...Whitewash!" were heard when Prime Minister Thatcher read the Franks report's exculpation of her government. Said she: "We now have no option but Fortress Falklands." Former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan charged that Thatcher had bought "a short-term military victory and a long-term political retreat and dead end." The report, he later insisted, let the Prime Minister off "too lightly...
...Washington Post's top political reporter, David S. Broder: "Not the midpoint in the Reagan presidency but its phaseout. . . an accelerating retreat from Reaganism, a process in which he is more spectator than leader...
...most places the retreat from capital punishment was not a formal, statutory change. At any one time no more than a third of the states have been without a death-penalty provision. It seems that Americans want it both ways, retaining the right to exterminate miscreants, as well as having the option not to exercise that awful power. It is easy and sometimes appealing to talk tough and demand mercilessness in the abstract. But to really "fry the bastards"? How many? Which ones? "What a person says on a public opinion poll," observes Thomas Reppetto, president of the Citizens Crime...
...longtime aides at a cocktail lounge near the capitol. He embraced Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt, whom he has dated periodically for six years. Brown intimates say that the relationship is on again and that a spring wedding is even possible. Brown will say only that he intends to retreat to his Laurel Canyon home in Los Angeles, learn to operate the Apple III computer given him by his staff, do some writing and read books. Brown does not hesitate to admit that he still has political ambitions, declaring all too accurately: "I feel ready to go, but there...