Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrators are content for the Houses to remain individualistic places for students to retreat at night, it can stick with present policy. But to restore a sense of community that might "re-civilize" that Houses, the University must act. One idea occasionally put forth is to institute a random housing lottery. This step would break up the large cliques that inevitably congregate in individual Houses and that promote the most invidious brand of intolerance--that sanctioned by a majority. Either way, Bok and the masters face a hard choice in resolving the dichotomy between community and individuality. Recent strains...
Korchnoi, a burly, voluble Russian defector, arrived from a Swiss health retreat accompanied by an entourage Muhammad Ali would envy. Spokesman Emanuel Sztein sported a Solidarity button and passed out postcards demanding that Korchnoi's son Igor, 22, be released from a two-year prison sentence for draft evasion and that Korchnoi's wife Bella be allowed to join him. Korchnoi's party also included an American yoga instructor, who sat in the first row at the opening game last week wearing an orange sari...
...last Thursday, in a rare retreat, he said of Social Security, "Our feet were never embedded in concrete on this proposal." Besieged by mounting pressure from within his own party and a fire storm of increasingly effective rhetoric from Democratic leaders, the President decided to shelve any major reforms of the all-but-bankrupt Social Security system as part of his second round of budget cuts. He had hoped to confront the issue head-on during his televised speech. Instead, he merely recommended again changes that Health and Hu man Services Secretary Richard Schweiker and OMB Director David Stockman...
...takes an extra step of understanding to realize that these attitudes have been produced by the apartheid system, which the majority of whites tacitly or overtly support. Instead of trying to comprehend, it is far easier for them to retreat into fear and prejudice...
...federal interest" in the questions of whether states can exclude the children of illegal aliens from public schools and whether it is unconstitutional for the states to ban voluntary busing. Both positions mark an abrupt break from previous Administrations-Republican as well as Democratic-and the first retreat on civil rights enforcement since the Truman era. The department is also reviewing federal affirmative-action policies and has pledged not to seek hiring goals or quotas that might discriminate against whites...