Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic prosperity. And Buchanan's plans for economic isolation will surely bring just that. One might be tempted to contemplate 200 years worth of economic theory regarding the gains from free trade, but why expend all that unnecessary energy when it's so much easier to retreat behind the wall of protectionism that Buchanan offers? After all, if we can't compete with Japan and Germany, why even try? Just shut them out. I'm surprised more people haven't come to this conclusion...
...looks vulnerable and Helms' 1990 foe, Harvey Gantt, wants to make another run at him. Gantt has edged ahead of Helms in recent polls, yet Kerrey has encouraged Charlie Sanders, a former Glaxo chief executive, to run. Insiders say Kerrey touted Sanders to big Democratic contributors at a recent retreat in Aspen, Colorado. Officially, a Kerrey spokesman says both Gantt and Sanders would be fine candidates, although he acknowledges that Kerrey's praise for Sanders "confuses people." Gantt's backers plan a bloody primary, which ultimately would probably help re-elect Helms...
...beat a hasty retreat and gave the flowers and chocolates to my mother...
...mass grave sites, like those around Serb-held Brcko and Srebenica, in the spring. Since the town fell relatively late in the Serb's offensive, everyone knew that they were ethnically cleansing. Most of the Croats and Muslims fled before the Serbs arrived. It was a pretty organized retreat. So it could be that the bodies they are finding are either soldiers or old people who couldn't flee or people who lived in the mountains and didn't know that the town was falling...
Though relatively harmless, there is something disturbing about these little adventures in New Age shamanism. They are symptomatic of a more general and potentially ominous recent phenomenon: a flight toward irrationality, a retreat to prescientific primitivism in an age that otherwise preens with scientific pride...