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backtrack
i. When transmitted on radio by the air traffic controller, it means that the aircraft should turn through 180° on the runway after landing and taxi in the opposite direction (i.e., toward the runway end from which the aircraft has landed).
ii. In air, to turn through approximately 180° and follow the same track in the reverse direction.
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According to the Associated Press USA backtracked on its decision to order the Palestinians' office in Washington to close After talks between Palestinian and Amrican sides .
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Without Warhol I might not have appreciated John Cage and Pierre Boulez, and without them I would not have backtracked to Arnold Schonberg (who seems Warhol's antithesis but is in fact his compatriot in the art of being odd--see Schonberg's 1937 lecture "How One Becomes Lonely").
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The Roman church eventually backtracked, allowing an "optional memorial" of this great saint, putting themselves back in line with the Anglican and Orthodox rites of catholicism who never attempted to murder a saint called George.
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