Word: retreatism
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Because of this division, upwardly mobile minority parents seeking educational opportunity for their children--or hoping to avoid the trails which faced Tserotas or Ramos--often retreat to suburbs and predominantly white high schools...
...mines is unpopular among many at the Pentagon. "There's no easy way to defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility," says the officer. "But is it moral to put your own guys at risk--knowing your adversary isn't going to do that...
...only to watch in horror as the White House's rapid-response team persuaded chief of staff Leon Panetta to accept almost at once. It was an offer that Dole could make but couldn't accept. "We'll see how it looks," he said in retreat. On the Republican right, and not just there, they think Clinton mesmerized Gingrich in the December balanced-budget talks. Any deal Dole might bring back to the skeptical freshmen would probably be sneered at. And that would be a catastrophic exposure of weakness that Dole could ill afford...
Through our advertising and consumer culture, we have created a society of half-adults that invites men and women to remain immature. In the case of Theodore John Kaczynski, the retreat to Montana without the community of his peers seems to be a retreat to childhood. His withdrawal has the unresponsive quality of a boy who wants to show his parents they can't abandon him--he will abandon them...
...adjustment. Signs of Disneyfication have so far been small but symbolic. A new E-mail system on ABC computers is decorated with Mickey and Minnie icons, and Disney's annual report prompted snickers by referring to Capital Cities/ABC employees, in traditional Disneyese, as "new cast members." At a corporate retreat in Phoenix, Arizona, Eisner and Ovitz joined in the wholesome fun as a group of ABC execs was dragged off to a bowling alley...