Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kamikaze" mission: launch Russia's transition to a market economy and then withdraw, battered and no doubt vilified for making his nation suffer. His prediction proved accurate last week, when he was ousted as acting Prime Minister. In his place rose fears that Russia had begun a slow retreat from democratic reform...
...there are tree farms, transmogrified by science into monocultural stands of uniform height and genetic stock. In a word, a crop. Many anglers cast into rivers and lakes devoid of native fish. Stocked European brown trout and transplanted rainbows ply our streams, with native brook and cutthroat trout in retreat. Bighorn sheep and other game herds are shunted about for the hunter's delight...
This path--from overcrowdedness to retreat, through loneliness, the fear of endings, and the search for childhood--is only one of many a reader could take through Hotel Lautreamont; in this dense book of 82 poems, there is a sort of conversation among the various kinds of quatrains--between those with refrains and those without, for example; there is a debate among several poems as to their speaker's putative uniqueness, and whether other people might notice it; there are love poems, and poems "about" architecture, and parodies of newspapers, fashion pages, idle chatter and funeral orations...
...spot in the new Economic Security Council is likely to go to investment banker Robert Rubin or Harvard lecturer and transition-team adviser Robert Reich, who is also a candidate for head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Clinton wants to get the team in place before the economic retreat scheduled for Dec. 14-15 in Little Rock...
...December 27, Harvard will retreat to Barbados for a winter practice session...