Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...malpractice premiums have deterred young physicians from entering practice, there are indications that the costs are forcing older physicians out, thus contributing to the medical manpower shortage. Some semiretired doctors attempting to practice part time have found that they cannot afford to pay full premiums, and have had to abandon medicine completely...
Lester does not believe that "it is time to abandon affirmative action." He wants the emphasis changed. Instead of shoehorning more women and minorities into professorships, more should be lured into Ph.D. programs to begin with...
...various implications of these views are familiar enough. Power corrupts and so do possessions. So do pride and pragmatism. "The political genius," Solzhenitsyn writes with savage irony, "lies in extracting success, even from the people's ruin." Similar notions, passionately held, drove Tolstoy to abandon family and property and preach nonresistance as well as noncooperation with any of the institutions of society...
Though the Justices all agreed that Carnal Knowledge was permissible softcore porn, they are still split on the basic strategy for dealing with obscenity. Justice William Brennan, who feels that Government would do better to abandon the field altogether, filed a brief opinion gloomily noting that the court had once again fallen back into "the mire of case-by-case determinations of obscenity." Brennan's I-told-you-so was aimed mainly at Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote the previous porn opinions that encouraged local courts and prosecutors to take off after whatever books, movies and plays seemed...
Probably the crudest dilemma facing the new middle class is their relationship with blacks left behind in the ghetto. It is natural enough for the middle class to pull out of the slums once they can afford to-just as other ethnic groups have done. But by leaving, they abandon those who cannot escape the ghetto to its more rapacious elements, aggravating the spread of crime and decay. Small wonder that middle-class blacks feel some guilt and ambivalence about fleeing to better neighborhoods...