Word: retreated
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...every woman, as Washington tests a retreat from affirmative action
...limited, the reaction utterly predictable. The Reagan Administration told companies employing some 7.5 million workers that it would no longer make them draw up detailed plans for hiring and promoting women and blacks, Hispanics and members of other minority groups. Civil rights activists denounced the step as a retreat from the Government's commitment to end race and sex discrimination. On the other hand, some employers grumbled that the Administration had not gone far enough toward its announced goals of reducing the burden of paperwork on companies doing business with Washington and ending what Ellen Shong, director...
Frustration at what he considered lack of support for his effort to "finish the war" decisively before a cease-fire and a U.S.-sponsored disengagement agreement forced Israel to retreat back across the Suez Canal fueled his interest in politics even more. He was elected to the Knesset in December 1973 and in 1977 joined Begin's first government as Agriculture Minister. There he established a reputation less for his initiatives in farming methods than for his relentless encouragement of Israeli civilian settlement in occupied territories (when he took over the portfolio, there were 70 such settlements with...
...trip was a ritual of homage. Following in the footsteps of every other East bloc leader, Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski made the traditional trek to Leonid Brezhnev's Crimean vacation retreat last week for what was described by the official news agency TASS as a "short working visit." They had much to work...
After he retired from his road-paving business in Miami, Russell Carter, 63, acted on a lifelong dream. On five acres of sparsely settled land 20 miles west of the city, he set up a rural retreat, built a ranch house, landscaped the plot around it and stocked four new fresh-water ponds with fish. Ever since, Carter has been in deep trouble...