Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today we still have anti-gay and lesbian policies, but they are in retreat," Frank said. "I believe that prejudice is eroding, although it's not eroding nearly fast enough...
...conservatives, wary as they are about the mayhem being done to Marxism, agree that something must be done. As Gorbachev well knows, one of the safeguards of perestroika is its links to glasnost: now that the economy's inherent flaws have been aired, it is impossible to retreat and pretend once again not to see them. "The notion that Ligachev or anyone else can bring perestroika to a halt now simply does not square with reality," says Soviet economist Gavril Popov. "Empty store shelves and housing problems have made the process difficult, but something absolutely vital has taken place...
Romano said he also envisions HUSO creating aprogram similar to one at the University ofPennsylvania, in which student leaders spend threedays on a leadership retreat...
...starting a conference in which studentleaders will speak to each other about what we cando," Romano said. "It is my hope that it turnsinto an annual student retreat...
...Cold War has drawn the blood of both superpowers. The Soviets have already realized that their wounds are too serious to ignore much longer, and seem to have beaten an unwanted but tactical retreat. The United States, while maintaining a vigilant attitude, should now pay attention to its own different wounds--a fatal lack of long-term economic, industrial and human investments--before it is too late. Indeed, it may already...