Word: retreating
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...first--again before I got sly--I would mumble excuses about getting fired. But now I retreat from the counter, take a moment to listen to the stereo, and return with a wink and a smile. "I gave you more," I lie, and they shuffle happily...
...years past, Harvard has plowed most of its profits back into the endowment. The University will retreat from that conservative stance just a shade next year, spending $55.3 million rather than the planned $54.3 million on the yearly costs of keeping the College running...
...Department of Justice, which has a keen sense of law-and-order, smokers now retreat to the photocopying rooms in order to relax with a soothing cigarette. And how does that affect working conditions? "We don't do any work here anyway," cracks one bureaucrat. At the Department of Transportation, where things are supposed to move, smokers can puff away in half the rest rooms and corridors, but at the State Department, which has never been known for hasty decision making, nobody is quite sure where you can do it. "The air hasn't circulated in here in 20 years...
...company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone." So wrote Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, the once bucolic site that provided his retreat from civilization. If Thoreau returned today, he would be appalled: last year some 350,000 visitors swarmed through the 400-acre state park near Concord, Mass., in an attempt to recapture the writer's sense of tranquillity...
...Washington, the National Security Council informed Ronald Reagan of the kidnapings at the President's Camp David retreat. "The President is concerned," said a White House spokesman. "We hold those individuals who took the hostages responsible for the safety of the hostages, and call for their immediate release." State Department officials, meanwhile, re- emphasized that all of Lebanon is dangerous for U.S. citizens. Washington, they said, cannot guarantee the safety of those few Americans who continue to live there...