Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter residue of the experience remains for others. "I don't have a single good memory of Tule Lake," says Mas Kito, 59, who had been forced to abandon his dry-cleaning business. "I was mad then, and I'm still mad," adds Kiege Kaku, 59, of Palo Alto, Calif. He still cannot forget the War Relocation...
European planemakers have stalled out while trying to intercept a larger share of the U.S.-dominated world market. The French sank $130 million into the Mercure mid-range commercial jet, sold only ten of them, and most likely will abandon the plane. A similar fate may well await the Concorde supersonic jetliner, on which much more British and French prestige is riding. Development costs have hit a frightening $2 billion, and the troubled plane's only solid customers so far are the state-owned airlines of the two countries financing...
...would be granted a measure of autonomy but not independence. This scheme satisfies neither the colonialists nor the colonials. General Francisco Costa Gomes, the armed forces commander in chief, made a sudden flying visit to Angola to reassure the 750,000 white settlers there that "Mother Portugal" would not abandon them. He was obviously concerned about heading off a Rhodesian-style breakaway by the oil-rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira...
...stop short of an energy stroke." But while people in developed countries speed onward blindly addicted to ever-increasing energy consumption, he tells Third World peasants to remain sober and "to abstain from something they have yet to taste." They must stop modelling themselves after the rich nations and abandon their impassible dreams of "overdevelopment...
Harvard can abandon its selfish financial policy. However, years of resistance by both workers and students will be necessary before the University can be turned around. This struggle can begin by a student commitment to aid the printers. Our interests are one; we should show our unity in the face of Harvard by joining the GAIU picket lines...