Word: retreated
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...grade civics textbook. "Great leaders excite great controversies. If one wants insight into how an individual thinks and feels as an adult, it makes common sense that his family background and early years will often provide a clue. "The successful leader must know when to light and when to retreat, when to be silent and when to compromise, when to speak out and when to be silent" Future Churchills and DeGaulles must be snapping to attention...
...these developments, taken together, have cast a distinct pall over White's administration. After occupying office for 15 often tumultuous years, the liberal mayor may face his roughest fight ever if he seeks re-election to a fifth term next November. "I will not retreat an inch," insists White. "I will be heard...
...list of investment analysts and economists argue that interest rates are bound to keep falling in 1983 no matter what the economy does, making bonds still one of the best buys in all of finance. Not only are rates high, but inflation, for now at least, is in full retreat...
...soon to ease security measures. The government freed 32 imprisoned Solidarity activists from the Warsaw area, but suggested that many union leaders still behind bars (an estimated 300) would stay there. A front-page headline in a Warsaw daily seemed to sum up the new official line: WE SHALL RETREAT FROM MARTIAL LAW BUT NOT FROM PUBLIC DISCIPLINE...
Reagan saved the harassed legislators one headache by bowing to near unanimous advice from Republican congressional leaders that his proposal to shift the final 10% installment of his three-year income tax cut from next July to January had no chance of passage. In spite of that retreat, the President showed that he retains plenty of backstage clout. His friend and close Senate ally, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, led a successful drive to remove Oregon Senator Bob Packwood from chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Packwood played a major role in helping engineer the reelection of every Republican...