Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meeting with about 100 faculty members, administrators and students yesterday morning, Murphy presented changes ranging from making more use of class evaluations to putting out an annual report on diversity to funding a student retreat to discuss diversity...
...leaving," he writes, "I suddenly ran smack into one of the clear glass doors, which caused me to recoil in shame and to beat a hasty retreat...
...Israel in 1985 to help patrol its self-declared "security zone" inside southern Lebanon, withdrew from the Jezzine enclave Monday, under fire from Hezbollah guerrillas as they went. With the local SLA commander acknowledging that the withdrawal was prompted by mounting casualties at the hands of Hezbollah, the retreat is a significant victory for the Iran-backed movement's protracted war of attrition. Israel's possible withdrawal, too, is prompted by concerns over continuing casualties, although Barak wants to negotiate security arrangements with the Lebanese and Syrian governments before a final pullout...
...Monday's retreat signals mounting panic in the ranks of the SLA, which effectively has been put on notice that their protector will be leaving town. More troubling for Israel is that neither Syria nor Lebanon -- neither of whom are fans of the Hezbollah -- is in any rush to fill the resulting security vacuum. There's little enthusiasm in Beirut for helping the Israelis out of what is perceived as a mess of their own making. And any security deal would have to be approved by Syria, which holds a de facto military veto power over the decisions...
...vice-presidential moment of high drama, so when Al Gore sat up particularly straight in the Senate president's chair and called twice for the recorded vote tally, it was clear he was relishing this one. For two weeks Senate Democrats had had their Republican rivals in retreat over gun-control legislation. Gore, the presumptive nominee, was called in to deliver the final blow. A Democrat-backed measure to impose restrictions on firearm sales at gun shows had been given new momentum by news of another school shooting that morning, but when the votes were counted, the 100 Senators...