Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we humans finally abandon the egotistical notion that skin and bones define sentient existence and that evolution is exclusively biological, we will recognize computers for what they are-the highest form of life on earth...
...important to recognize from the start two common myths about plant shutdowns," Whyte said. The first myth is that a corporation will not abandon a plant that is making money, and the second is that the employees and local management will not be able to make a company successful when a big company has already failed, he added...
...lengthening of the strike increased the chances of violence. Miners have already stopped some coal headed for utilities from non-union mines. Dozens of coal trucks have been forced at gunpoint to dump their loads. Towboats hauling coal barges up Pennsylvania's Monongahela River had to abandon operations when they were fired on by miners. "I don't like to see anyone suffer," says Jim Elias, 50, a miner in Greene County, Pa. "But we've got to get a decent contract somehow. I'm not the kind to fire a shot or throw a rock...
...feels that Israel must give up a great deal if peace is to come. "Israel cannot have both peace and territory," says Breira Executive Director Dan Gillon, arguing that the West Bank is not necessary to the security of Israel. There are others, too, who would be willing to abandon Jewish settlements in the Sinai. Israel, says Rabbi Stephen Pinsky of Tenafly, N.J., "should be able to give up the Sinai, to take a chance on this area." David Weinstein, president of Chicago's Spertus College of Judaica and a frequent visitor to Israel, agrees. Says he: "Relocate...
Meanwhile, neither Roth nor the Packwood-Moynihan team is prepared to abandon the tax-credit measures. Says Roth, whose proposal has passed the Senate three times but foundered in the House: "A majority in both the House and the Senate are sponsors of tuition tax cred its." No fewer than 252 members of the House and 57 Senators co-sponsored various tax credit bills in the past year. Nonetheless, Carter's proposal has gained support from influential members of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Either way, the chances are good that middle-income families will win some...