Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the '50s, when there was no sex, the Jesuit retreat master would tell us, "Boys, sometimes you are going to find yourselves having what we call Impure Thoughts. And when that happens, boys, I want you to play basketball...
Pushed back along a broad front, the Bosnian Serbs now hold about half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 20% less than before their retreat--and the approximate share set aside for them in a proposed settlement. Why the sudden reverse after three years in which they called virtually all the shots in the war, ignored pleas for restraint and thumbed their noses at the world? What happened to the soldiers described by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in a recent Time interview as "no doubt the better fighters"? Was the Bosnian Serb army ever as good as it was assumed...
...while on welfare. Senate Republicans have also joined with Democrats to restore a long list of spending cuts the House had approved, including $1.5 billion from education and $900 million from home energy assistance for the poor. Mindful of their image problem, it's likely that Republicans will also retreat somewhat over the next few weeks from their tax-cut pledge, at least to the extent of reining in breaks for families with adjusted incomes above...
...there is a key to the impasse, the difference of almost $150 billion between the Clinton and House G.O.P. proposals for cutting Medicare, it may lie partly in a retreat by Republicans from their tax-cut pledge. By saving billions of dollars, a smaller tax cut would allow the Medicare cuts to be somewhat smaller. But that is a fallback position, many weeks away. Until then, many threats will be made and bluffs will be called. And Americans will come to realize that the breaking up of gridlock is not a quiet process...
Even with Gorton in limbo, what remains of the Wilson strategy after the retreat from Iowa is Gorton's go-for-broke concentration on the Northeast and a slice of the West. Wilson hopes to score well on Feb. 20 in pro-choice New Hampshire, where he is already running a $35,000-a-week series of TV ads. After New Hampshire, Wilson would like to rob Gramm of the Feb. 27 primary in Arizona. Wilson then hopes to win at least two, maybe more, of the five states in the March 5 New England primary. Gorton proposed using that...