Word: retreating
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With sea level expected to rise an additional 5.7 in. to 7.7 in. during the next 20 years, beaches will continue to retreat, diminishing the sand barriers that protect $2 trillion worth of insured property along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S. A study by Travelers Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, estimates that even a modest 0.9 degreesF increase in average global temperature by the year 2010 could produce a 20-day extension of the hurricane season, a 33% jump in hurricane landfalls in the U.S., an increase in the severity of the storms and a 30% annual...
...Ames scandal catches Yeltsin at a particularly fragile time in his ) presidency. Faced with continued opposition from ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his conservative and communist followers in parliament, Yeltsin has been forced to retreat from the grand promises of reform he made to Clinton in January. Last week the parliament voted overwhelmingly to grant amnesty to Ruslan Khasbulatov and Alexander Rutskoi, two leaders of the failed 1993 uprising against Yeltsin's government, as well as to the men who plotted the aborted 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Though Yeltsin's aides insisted that the parliament had overstepped its authority, hard...
...fact is that the Serbs aren't in the business of honoring treaties or agreements. And stopping the fighting now for some kind of treaty is morally wrong. These aggressors must be forced to retreat and must be punished...
...latest evidence of retreat was a statement in last week's Faculty meeting by President Neil L. Rudenstine postponing to the MIT program used by Harvard's ROTC students...
Last Friday, Federal civil-rights mediators descended on the town of Ovett, Mississippi to take on their first gay-harassment case. A lesbian couple attempting to found what The New York Times described as "a feminist and lesbian retreat and conference center" had met powerful resistance from the community, including verbal and written threats and a dead dog draped over their mailbox. Fears of violence brought the mediators from Washington to investigate...