Word: retreatism
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...long as there has been an Internet, of course, there have been anti-Internet fuddy-duddies, pessimists who lament the end of face-to-face sociability as people retreat from the bustling public square to their computers for the anonymous encounters of cyberspace. With some justification, the pessimists can trace the decline of shopping, that most social of activities, from the mom-and-pop corner shop, where everyone knows everyone else, to the department store, where we might recognize one of the cashiers, and from there to the vast warehouse of the superstore, where no one knows anyone--and finally...
...Most Hillel activities have a point," You go and you learn something or they take you on a retreat and teach you leadership," explains Lev Polinsky '99-'00, a co-chair of the group...
...Intramurals] are a pleasant retreat from the daily grind," Watson says. "And I'm not pressured into doing it, which is what makes it kind of therapeutic...
...Bryan: My point is that, nobody in the organization wanted to represent an organization at any retreat at any cabinet meeting because it was way too much bureaucracy to wade through; there was quorum this and I hereby second the third motion to consider the fifty-fifth motion of sub-section 47b. And also there were all sorts of enforced meetings at times when nobody really wanted to have meetings for the sake of having a meeting and having an itinerary and free pizza. It was so stupid. The organization should be streamlined in every program...
...with even Malik Saydulayev, head of the new Chechen puppet government created in Moscow, calling for talks with more moderate Chechen commanders, some form of deal may be in the works. Russia has plainly won this phase of the war, forcing the guerrilla army of President Aslan Mashkadov to retreat from every urban center in the country other than the capital...