Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ides of March looms as a crucial time. Pollster Richard Wirthlin and Counsellor Ed Meese have warned the President that just about now President Carter began to yield to outside clamor. He lost his power through retreat and vacillation...
Reagan now searches for evidence to bolster his position. Economist Milton Friedman came by the White House last week and told the President that interest rates were at an in-between stage. Bankers who were betting on a Reagan retreat, Friedman said, predict the rates will go still higher; those who believe he will not yield expect the rates to come down. Stand firm, the economist declared, and rates will fall. Reagan nearly hugged...
...neoconservatives" who had moved from the liberal to the conservative side after Viet Nam had few incentives to recall their own contributions to the collapse of international restraints. They forgot that they had assaulted as too bellicose the same foreign policy that five years later they denounced as retreat...
...Reagan program (a defense spending increase of $34 billion next year, along with tax cuts of $91.6 billion), while listening patiently to budget alternatives in other areas. But the definition of the "fundamentals" is hazy. When asked what Reagan meant when he said he wanted to avoid a "fundamental retreat," White House Spokesman David Gergen replied: "It's like obscenity. You'll know it when...
...transnational banks, that gilding a simple business loan to the South African government with humanitarian verbiage would be sufficient to legitimize direct subsidies to the state architects of apartheid. We should not overlook the domestic consequences of such a decision because retrenchment al Harvard will encourage a similar retreat at other universities. More ominously, over racism threatens once again to become a respectable feature of American politics and Harvard's capitulation on the South Africa issue can only feed the backlash against our own civil rights movement...