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...fitfully for the right word to describe what was happening. At the Bank of Japan, the nation's central bank, officials spoke of "an adjustment phase." Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa admitted only to "a difficult situation." The Economic Planning Agency, the government's record keeper, referred delicately to a "retreat." Then two weeks ago, for the first time since 1987, the agency dropped its boilerplate reference to the "expansion" from its closely watched Monthly Economic Report, and the word game was over. Japan's economy, the world's second largest, conceded the experts, was in recession...
America does not need to retreat from international competition. Instead we need government and business to cooperate toward capturing new foreign markets. It is time to create an Economic Security Council to formulate a comprehensive international economic strategy, just as the National Security Council coordinates our security policies...
WASHINGTON--The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urged the Bush administration yesterday to reconsider its ban on race-specific scholarships, saying its policy signals a retreat from equal opportunity...
Steinem: I don't want to sound like a complaining author, but there is a chasm between the important reviews and the popular response. What I wrote as a strengthening of self-authority, some reviewers called weakness -- even a retreat from activism. At first, I was very hurt, but then I realized it was partly their wishful thinking...
...agriculture society. That is neither possible nor desirable. Technology has given us advantages that we should appreciate and keep. Communication has made this world in a sense smaller, and yet it has also widened all our horizons to a point where none of us would want to retreat back to our separated corners. We cannot do without our medical advances, and I wouldn't want to live without my stereo and music...