Word: retreating
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...electorate knows Olmert is no Ariel Sharon, and the question now is whether voters who were willing to break with their traditional party affiliations in order to support Sharon's new formation are ready to stay the course with a lesser leader, or retreat into their traditional political homes. It's likely that Kadima will shed support now to the traditional parties, but the outcome of an election that once looked drearily predictable is suddenly wide open...
...bombings on Thursday alone. For a few weeks, many Iraqis had felt able to lower their guard just a bit-parks, playgrounds, teahouses and restaurants were full of families eager to take advantage of the all-too-short winter. Now, those public places will again be deserted as people retreat fearfully to their homes...
...from conservative publisher Regnery, Hayworth calls for deploying active-duty troops to the border and considering a "border security fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico." Hayworth is unlikely to please the West Wing with his assertion about a chat he had at a House Republican retreat in West Virginia a year ago with White House senior adviser Karl Rove. When Hayworth criticized an Administration overture to Mexico, he writes, "Rove became somewhat exasperated and spluttered, 'You just don't want to help brown people, do you?'" A White House official says Rove recalls the conversation...
...those who do contract the new strain of the disease, the prognosis is nowhere near hopeless. The CDC recommends discontinuing the use of other antibiotics if possible and treating the infection with those antibiotics known as vancomycin or matronidazole. Constant monitoring is important, since the disease may retreat for a time and then reemerge. Like all new bugs, the super C. diff may still hold some surprises. For the moment at least, science is managing to keep pace with...
...retreat referred to took place on Sept. 13 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Somerville, Mass. It was at the retreat, to which all department chairs were invited, that Kirby first formally confirmed the rumored slowdown in faculty hiring...