Word: retreatism
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...sides met at a December retreat, where a professional facilitator helped them heal "a lot of the residual tensions," according to PBHA Programming Chair and Trustee Priscilla Chan...
...this spring the chairman reset his course, and other doves on the panel found themselves in full retreat. The tough new thinking was reinforced by the arrival of voting members like Jerry Jordan, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Ohio). "There is [agreement] right now that the economy is growing too rapidly," Rivlin says. The moral: "If you step on the brakes a little and the car doesn't slow down, then you need to step on them a bit harder the next time...
Israel?s hasty retreat from Lebanon this week stopped the music in the Mideast's high-stakes game of musical chairs, sending all the region's players scurrying to reposition themselves. While it's too early to predict winners, the strategies pursued by the different players from here on may determine the future of the Mideast for decades to come. And in true Mideastern fashion, the move that represents a dramatic step towards peace also carries new dangers...
...from Hezbollah or dissident Palestinian groups. It has warned that any attacks will be met with overwhelming force in the form of air strikes - and it has made very clear that it will include Syria's extensive military installations in Lebanon on the target list. But Israel's hasty retreat left a lot of weapons in the hands of local militants who're not necessarily under Hezbollah's (or any body else's) discipline. A rogue attack emanating from these elements or from some of Lebanon's 400,000 Palestinian refugees who stand to gain little from the Israeli-Palestinian...
...have, and Damascus retains de facto military and political control over its fragile neighbor. Israel's Lebanon dilemma had for most of the past decade been a key bargaining chip in Syria's efforts to negotiate a peace agreement involving Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Israel's unilateral retreat from Lebanon has now deprived Damascus of that leverage, calling Syria's bluff. Moreover, it's beginning to raise the question among Lebanese of what purpose is served by Syria's presence, which has been presented as a defense against Israel...