Word: rearguard
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...resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite, not, as it claimed, on behalf of the people. Over the decades, the self-professed vanguard of the proletariat became adept at fighting rearguard actions against innovation...
...urban renewal had its rearguard critics, and vital downtowns had their influential advocates. The right laws were passed. Cases were won. In 1965 New York City passed the Landmarks Preservation Law, setting up a commission that could restrict any changes to designated historic buildings; a year later, Congress enacted its version, which established the National Register of Historic Places and provided preservation grants to states...
...President's speech had all the trappings of a major offensive, but in fact he was fighting a rearguard defense. When Ronald Reagan took to the airwaves last week to beseech the nation to continue backing his massive defense buildup, the rumbles of discord threatened to drown out his ardent pleas and shift the public attention from funding the Pentagon to reforming...
That leaves Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, another intimate of Reagan's from California days. Weinberger's energy has been drained by a rearguard action against deep cuts in the military budget, and to his considerable displeasure, he was not invited to the Geneva summit. But he is still a formidable adversary whose professional disagreements with Shultz have been sharpened by personal strains. Perhaps 90% of the foreign policy disputes that appear in the newspapers are arguments between Shultz and Weinberger. A colleague of both has lost count of the number of meetings with Reagan at which Shultz has declared...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who once aspired to be Secretary of ( State, often tries to put his own spin on foreign policy. Last week he was at it again, waging a rearguard action against accommodation with the Soviet Union...