Word: retreater
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...past, the bulls have been a good bet. The last time the Fed pushed down interest rates to end a recession was in the summer of 1982, which quickly sparked a Wall Street rally. Four months later, the economic slump was over. But bulls know when to retreat too. If investors see no recovery by summer, watch out for at least a temporary comeback of the bears...
...back. And I remember what you told me up there and these things that air power can do.' He said, 'I'm more confident now than I was.' " Thus reassured, Bush never considered drawing up any "doomsday kind of scenario" to allow for a U.S. stalemate or retreat...
ASPEN (PBS, Dec. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Frederick Wiseman, the no- frills documentarian who has explored everything from hospitals to animal laboratories, gets a rare dose of fresh air in this 2 1/2-hr. look at the trendy Colorado retreat...
...maybe not just any recession. General Motors, that synonym for American enterprise, sounds a massive retreat with unprecedented plant closings and layoffs. Is this a metaphor for the American economy, for American destiny? We are seized with a sudden fear: maybe the current recession is not just a cyclical downturn, which would make it tolerable, but the harbinger of long- term decline. Maybe the bill for the cold war (or the Decade of Greed or the wages of sin -- pick your poison) has come due, and we are now beginning our inexorable descent. Maybe this is not America...
...Buchanan toned down some of his reactionary ideas. But he retained enough traces of xenophobia to sound like a flashback from the isolationist 1930s. Launching his campaign in New Hampshire, where the first 1992 presidential primary is only nine weeks away, Buchanan demanded no less than America's retreat from the world at flank speed...