Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late 1970s, however, all the varied roads to socialism were converging on dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual fashion. It began with the 1970 publication of Jean-Francois Revel's Without Marx or Jesus, which praised U.S. society as open and pragmatic and rejected socialism as a dogma that had failed...
...this splendid craftsmanship, popular moviemaking at its best, is in the service of building rooting interest in the story of a woman who keeps finding ways to transcend the limits that unexamined custom often imposes on her sex. In action pictures, women are supposed to swoon or retreat to a safe corner (or, at best, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition) while the male lead protects them and defends Western civilization as we know it. In Aliens, it is the guys who are all out of action at the climax and Ripley who is in a death duel with...
Industry Minister Chirayu Isarangkun arrived in Phuket to announce that plans to open the hated factory would be shelved, but he was forced to retreat to a neighboring province without delivering his message. Rioters looted and burned the hotel where the Minister was thought to be hiding, vandalized three banks and set fire to the factory...
...follow federal guidelines for releasing live, genetically altered organisms into the environment but also neglected to conduct an environmental assessment of the risks involved. Stung by the petition and aware of Rifkin's uncanny success in obtaining court injunctions to back his demands, the USDA beat a hasty retreat. Bert Hawkins, administrator of the department's animal and plant health inspection service, conceded that the USDA did not "document" its environmental analysis because "we felt the product was not significantly different from products already on the market. In fact, it was a safer product. But we should have documented...
Pressed on his comments later, Bush did not retreat. He felt "very, very strongly that a strong domestic oil industry is in the vital national-security interest of the U.S.," he reiterated in Bahrain. "Whether it proves to be a detriment politically, I simply couldn't care less...