Word: retreating
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Brown admits that his deal with the Government was a retreat from AT&T's longtime resistance to a breakup. "Divestiture was not our idea," he says, "and we think it is wrong from the standpoint of the country's interests." But the alternative seemed bleaker: "Time was not on our side. The Government's determination to restructure the Bell System would have gone on for years, draining our energy and preventing us from planning our own future." Rather than cling to the past, Brown was eager to get on with the "exciting" task of building...
...history, economics, technology, climate, social order and religion that shape a nation's cooking. This concern with context is evident in the major cookbooks of the past few years, in which origins are sought out, variations explored and invention honored. At the same time, they have marked a retreat from the ostentatious extremes of "new" cuisines, from what Author Paula Wolfert calls "front of the mouth" food. "Though these dishes may appeal to the tips of our tongues," she maintains, "there is no real depth to them, and not much desire to eat them again." Wolfert and other notable...
...bridge-partners, the bonds and tensions webbing these people together is wonderfully conveyed the prejudices and biases that the characters display in their attitudes both towards each other and towards Ireland are threaded subtly beneath the first-person narration of one of the wives. Theirs is an unambitious rural retreat in which "it was impossible to believe that somewhere else the unpleasantness was going on." The troubles of Ireland are at a safe distance until one of their own number. Cynthia (whose husband the narrator sleeps with) hitherto considered to be rather weak and characterless--stuns them all with...
...repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life, of the eras of a country house, of tennis parties and unfulfilled relationships. Here is the retreat into the past, the solace of remembering old pleasures, the ghostly hovering of the past over present dissatisfaction that colors so much of Trevor's work...
...Member Peter Drysdale. A professorial fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Drysdale predicted that Australia will pull out of a slump that has raised unemployment above 10%. Said he: "There is a strong mood of confidence in the Australian economy-a sharp contrast with the confusion and retreat of twelve months...