Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cowboys of the Commonwealth, who drive autos instead of pintos have aways posed a problem for Massachusetts insurance companies. Sheltered by their compulsory insurance policies, the cowboys keep plowing into other cars with abandon, and leave the companies holding the bill for damages. As a result, company deficits and insurance rates have been pushing each other upwards for three years...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished
...Complete revision of U.S. Customs regulations, many of which are unworkable, and so restrictive that they have forced hundreds of legitimate businesses to abandon importing at the very time the U.S. should have been fostering...
...referendum was the result of a 1952 Legislature resolution, allowing communities to abandon the system if they so voted. The PR voting, however, had no bearing on the continuation of the city manager plan...
What sort of policy should this be? The GOP majority has two suggestions. One is to abandon Asia, quarantine it from US troops, and supply only what cash and armaments a comfortably low tax rate can make available. This means leaving Korea, lessening assistance to the French in Indo-China and the British in Malaya, and adopting the Asians against Asians doctrine promulgated recently by General Eisenhower. It means a refusal to share in the risks of collective security, even though demanding anti-communism of the countries America would abandon...