Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however controversial or exasperating the results may sometimes be ... We won't retreat in the face of threats of boycotts or political grandstanding...
...annual meeting, then inviting in recording artists, producers and executives to answer a few critical questions: Do they in fact have standards of decency? What are they? What if anything is over the line? After that could come an explicit code of behavior for artists and distributors-and a retreat from some of the more egregious offenders. The process may well be slow and deliberate, if only to make sure the desired results stick...
...existing misnamed safe havens, it will become impossible for them to fulfill those missions. Worse, they will continue as prime targets of the Serbs, because the Bosnian Muslims use those very same areas to rest, retrain and plan counterattacks. If, to render themselves less vulnerable, they retreat to more remote locations, they will be safer but almost wholly irrelevant-unless they become combatants, which is the last thing their governments want...
...rights by renewing China's most-favored-nation status a year ago despite its dismal human-rights record. By then it was evident that for all its brutality, the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown had not been a political watershed, that economic reform was continuing and that ideology was in general retreat-even if the regime remained rigidly authoritarian. The record of Clinton's "comprehensive engagement" policy since has been mixed: no measurable impact on human rights, no progress on persuading China to stop nuclear testing, but a resumption of military exchanges and other consultations and a successful seven-month negotiation...
Diplomatic sources are also suggesting that Syrian President Hafez Assad has agreed to begin normalizing relations with Israel-establishing embassies, opening up trade and so on-before the Israeli retreat from the Golan is complete; if true, this would be a substantial concession. The list of major differences is still long. Israel, for instance, wants to continue to maintain early-warning stations on the Golan, and Syria flatly refuses. But at least the two countries are on speaking terms again...