Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Bank. Israel would withdraw its troops and abandon the 51 settlements established since the Six-Day War. Where the pre-1967 lines arbitrarily divided villages and farms, there should be minor territorial adjustments. At least temporarily, Israel should be allowed to maintain security outposts along the Jordan River...
...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...
Arab opposition to the trip was based on three specific worries: 1) Sadat might abandon the Pan-Arab cause and seek a separate peace agreement with Israel; 2) the Egyptian President, by setting foot in Israel, was granting de facto recognition to a state that radical Arabs refuse to accept; 3) in speaking to the Knesset, he was also acknowledging Israel's right to consider Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez...
...growing reluctance to move has not been lost on the big corporations, which have always felt free to move their people with abandon. A Delta Airlines spokesman reports: "People are absolutely putting their foot down about being hauled out of a city." Polaroid says that applications for transfers abroad, once in the hundreds for every job, are now in the dozens. Like many companies, FMC, an international conglomerate based in Chicago, is responding to employee pressure by eliminating many executive transfers around the country. Says a spokesman: "We are trying to slow down the revolving door...
Pete Hamill claims to have once been told how to use words. In the introduction to a 1971 publication of his collected writings, Hamill quotes his mentor Tom McMahon on the subject. "Words are not meant to be slapped on the page with careless abandon," McMahon says. "Words are to be used with care, even love." This is precisely the kind of advice that columnists like Hamill apparently find the hardest to follow...