Word: retreater
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...sense, that we'll be able to say, in terms of numbers or anything, exactly what happened," May said. "Everyone is in agreement that whatever happened, it was nothing like My Lai [a massacre in Vietnam]. It was not a deliberate atrocity. Whatever happened was incidental to a panicked retreat...
...plus side, tax selling must halt by year's-end. Many believe the Middle East issues won't force oil prices much higher and oil could retreat modestly fairly soon. Despite the many earnings warnings, overall corporate profits will be up about 15% this year and 10% more next year. Largely ignored last week were solid results from PC maker Gateway and optical-networking company Corning...
...reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's "War and Peace," which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which is translated into Russian...
Shivaram said the new board will develop with definitive goals for the year at a retreat next week...
...which it has effectively laid siege over the past three weeks, and to reopen passages between those centers. And the Palestinians are expected, in turn, to restore and maintain law and order in areas under their control. But Israel signaled that it will wait 48 hours before enacting any retreat, in order to establish that violence has indeed ebbed. And the Palestinians, of course, claim that it's impossible to restore calm as long as Israeli soldiers are but a stone's throw away...