Word: retreated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...group of media representatives will spend hours poring over polling data from around the country. No cell phones or Internet connections will be allowed, and the group will not emerge until 5 p.m. E.T. These people are part of the National Election Pool (NEP)--and they owe their monastic retreat to a long-running debate on how early election reports can affect the outcome of a race...
...value when sub-prime mortgages went south. In order to prevent the company’s collapse, the Federal Reserve crated an $85 billion credit line in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Currently the company is faced with another tough decision: should it hold its executive retreat in Cabo or Bali this year? And would Hank Paulson want to go snorkeling? What would you advise? Case 2 You are advising a paper-goods company located in Scranton, Pa. Two of the employees, Angela and Andy, are engaged to be married, but the assistant (to the) regional manager...
Entering the endgame of a presidential election, gloves come off and campaigns often resort to less-than-honorable tactics to energize supports or sow doubt among an opponent’s potential voters. The McCain-Palin ticket has epitomized this fourth-quarter retreat into murky tactics, for example, with its use of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, as political ammunition. Appealing to the worst of voters’ prejudices, such tactics are particularly fiendish for their ability to degrade even those who speak out against them. A friend of mine, stalwart of the Republican information network that...
...alibi child" who was only conceived so that his mother could prove to her partner that she was not sterile. According to Fritzl's account, she neglected him and subjected him to traumatic experiences like abandonment. During World War II bombing raids, for example, Fritzl's mother would retreat to an air-raid shelter for safety, leaving Fritzl alone in the family home...
...seemed to have realized - finally - the permanent threat to his reputation that his campaign had become. The moment of truth may have occurred at an Oct. 6 rally. "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain asked. "A terrorist!" a man bellowed. McCain seemed to wince, roll his eyes, retreat. He didn't admonish the man, but the incident was unsettling, and several days later, at a town-hall meeting in Minnesota, he did begin to push back against the ugliness of his crowds. A woman said, "I can't trust Obama. He's an Arab," and McCain replied...