Word: retrenched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's most influential universities, it carries a heavy responsibility to support academic values, to work for diversity and tolerance, and to recognize that its actions do affect the outside world, be it Cambridge or South Africa. It is a responsibility on which Harvard must not retrench...
...LATEST BATCH of heartless cuts recommendations from Washington has spawned more destruction than just the disappearance of whole categories of financial aid. An unavoidable "ripple effect" goes further. It forces strapped universities to retrench on evenhanded and compassionate admissions policies they can no longer afford...
...expected challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation fall short, the impact of Helms' initiative could be even more stark. More than half of the 35,000 Boston students who are currently bused to school ride more than 15 minutes--raising the spectre that Boston would have to retrench dramatically on its widespread desegregation plans...
Consumer advocates retrench for hard times
...bankruptcies in 1980, in contrast with 7,757 in 1979. Small business is suffering especially hard. Last year, for example, 1,600 auto dealers had to close up shop because they were squeezed between high interest rates and low sales. Many people starting new companies are being forced to retrench. Don Middleberg, who is chairman of his own New York advertising and public relations firm, put off the purchase of a badly needed $16,000 word processor last month after his bank had jumped the lending rate from 12% to 22% in just eight weeks. Said he: "High interest rates...