Word: retreating
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Even with Incoming Interim Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles, highly respected by FAS professors for his work as dean under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the Council does not plan to retreat to its former passivity, Kleinman says...
...however, Summers was confident that he could endure the scheduled afternoon meeting of FAS, his first public conversation with professors since Kirby’s abrupt resignation, according a professor who spoke with him before the meeting. He spent the first half of the day at a semiannual retreat with the University’s deans—including Kirby—held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Irving Street, several blocks northeast of the Yard...
...uniting against him. Amid allegations of insider trading and influence peddling involving senior aides, his son-in-law and the First Lady, Chen's public-approval rating has plunged below 20%. Faced with the threat of revolt from his own supporters, Chen last week beat a strategic retreat, announcing he would hand over day-to-day running of the government to Premier Su Tseng-chang. "He knows he's in political trouble," says Emile Sheng, a political-science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's trying to do everything he can to remain in office...
...city, Esther stays out of the way by living on a farm. Trouble comes when the local Nazi Kommandant spies her. Suspecting she is a Jew, instead of turning her in, he forces her to become his mistress. Soon this horror gives way to another as the Nazis retreat from the advancing Russian troops. The Russian's vodka-fueled barbarism sends Esther fleeing into a snowstorm, pulling Miriam behind in an open suitcase. This intense sequence becomes the book's dramatic and thematic climax. While some may see the hand of a benevolent God in sending the snows...
...resolve concerns expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its program. But with China and Russia firmly resisting moves by the U.S. and its allies to seek a resolution threatening sanctions, or worse, if Iran fails to comply, the U.S. and its allies beat a tactical retreat. They chose instead to improve the incentives offered to Iran in the hope of securing its compliance - or if it remains defiant - of bolstering support for punitive action...