Word: retreater
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...danger lurking in the surrounding forest. Suddenly, out from behind a tree lumbers one of the largest and fiercest carnivores that have ever lived: Tyrannosaurus rex. Although this beast is a mere adolescent, it is 15 ft. tall and armed with dagger-sharp teeth. The triceratops attempts a retreat, but the cold-blooded creature can only move slowly. It is too soon after sunrise, and the dinosaur hasn't had time to absorb the heat it needs to rouse its sluggish metabolism. While T. rex has the same problem, its longer legs enable it to quickly overtake the docile herbivore...
...allies to protect Iraq's Kurds, since Iraq fired on two French Mirage reconnaissance planes on Feb. 3. Why the sudden new outburst? U.S. officials professed to see no special reason, speculating that Saddam Hussein was simply beginning a new round in his strategy of "cheat and retreat." Iraq claimed that one of its soldiers was wounded in the incident but denied initiating it. A Foreign Ministry spokesman called the U.S. response "aggressive and provocative behavior...
None of these approaches are very precise, but they have one thing in common: a retreat from ideology. The main lesson of the French elections, says philosopher Andre Glucksmann, is "the end of the religious, theological, ideological style of politics" that the Socialists represented. "Voters no longer believe in definitive, global solutions. They want politics to address real problems." He sees French politics evolving into an American-style two- party system, in which a liberal and a conservative camp would address issues free from the "dogmatic Utopianism" that once clouded their debates. At a time when many Europeans...
...military keenly anxious about its shrinking role in the post-cold war era, every presidential gesture is dissected and analyzed, sometimes absurdly so. It grates that Clinton has spent only one weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat run by the Navy. Military officers charge that Clinton has fewer veterans on his staff than any President in memory. Then there are the rumored slights, both real and imagined: a woman believed to be a member of the White House staff refused to speak to a top aide of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (true); Chelsea Clinton refused a military escort...
Salinas hasty retreat from a scheme which involved requesting a substantial donation of twenty five million dollars to his ruling PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) from a number of prominent Mexican executives was in part due to the increased scrutiny brought on by the ongoing negotiations...