Word: retreated
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...Though a leaf-crunching walk through the woods may be a relaxing forum for exchanging ideas with other department members during a weekend retreat, booking hotel reservations for 300 people for three nights is an example of a cost the department could do without, said department chair Clifford J. Tabin, who added that this year’s retreat will be held in an auditorium on campus...
...about half of the enlarged Kansas City council's 1,700 acres of camps are being "rested" for a year while final decisions are made about their fates. That includes Camp Oakledge, a 420-acre lakefront retreat in the Missouri Ozarks with a mile of shoreline. To some, "rested" is just a way of saying that the camps will be sold. "It's difficult, but it's necessary to ensure the future of this organization," says Girl Scout spokeswoman Gina Garvin of the Kansas City area. Camps cost the council $1.7 million last year, so something has to give...
...Deadline looms. Retreat to old desk to write. Maybe you can do it all, but you can't do it all at once...
...what Summers and Geithner propose, the size of the total package could easily top $500 billion in the first year, dwarfing the $150 billion stimulus Bush pushed through Congress in February. The inertia that typically keeps Congress from spending itself silly has gone on vacation: Republicans are in retreat, and even they agree that something dramatic is necessary. If anything, only the President-elect is talking about scrubbing the federal budget carefully for savings...
...early and descriptive passages of Daniel L. Everett’s book, “Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes,” a work chronicling his life with and research on the Pirahã, paint a picture of a near-idyllic retreat. However, the response the work has provoked at home—particularly within the linguistic community—has been far from tranquil. And while Everett and this book are gaining national attention for the unique nature of his discoveries, he’s also raising quite a few eyebrows in the world...