Word: retreated
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...specifics of the debate over standardized testing. But the people who govern admissions tend to share a common perspective on the SAT debate: You can find a handful of studies to endorse any position--pro or con--and at this point, there isn't enough evidence to prompt a retreat from reliance on the test...
Charles Lindbergh, as a radio operator, co-pilot and navigator. But in 1932, after the death of their 20-month-old kidnaped son, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, now 75, gradually began to retreat from public life to a reclusive existence, publishing her diaries and letters. Last week, Baking a rare public I appearance, the widow of "Lucky Lindy" traveled to Washington to accept the Award for Achievement from the National Aviation Club. "Pilots of the '20s and '30s were a special breed," she recalled. "They wanted to expand life's possibilities to the limits, and their dreams...
...easily leads to perceptions a) by "moonies" of the institutions of the wider society as fundamentally hostile and b) by others of moonies as social outcasts, or worse. This kind of clash is rather the rule in the establishment of new religious movements and thus persecution necessarily leads to retreat into a "fortress mentality." In the case of Rev. Moon--just the opposite...
...peace process initiated by Sadat ultimately bore fruit at Camp David the next year. Over a period of 13 days, Sadat, Begin and Jimmy Carter remained cloistered in that Maryland mountain retreat while they hammered out their historic "framework for peace." (Their joint efforts brought Sadat and Begin the Nobel Peace Prize for 1978.) The Camp David principles were embodied in a formal treaty that was signed by the three leaders in an emotional White House ceremony on March 26, 1979. For the first time in 31 years, Egypt and Israel were no longer in a state...
...understanding, signed by Sprinkel and Stockman's top economic aide, Lawrence Kudlow, among others, said that all concerned agreed on a steady slow growth of the money supply, which the Fed was moving to accomplish. The message ended: "Nothing which has been said in recent days indicates a retreat from that commitment." A White House spokesman as much as admitted that concern about economic disunity had been only temporarily stilled. Said he: "I don't think you'll hear much about that-for a few days anyway...