Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lynch remains convinced that America is returning to competitive shape. To abandon the stock market now would be to lose faith in those bustling factories, offices and stores he inspects every week. He believed in the long- term value of U.S. companies before the crash. He still does...
...that what the Senate was told by + Government witnesses during ratification hearings is not relevant to what the treaty really means on the subject of space-based defense. This outrages Nunn, who threatens to review the entire negotiation record of the INF pact unless the President and his advisers abandon the notion that they can reinterpret a treaty after the Senate has ratified...
Musical humor is no joke to perform, but it can be very funny, and Oil City Symphony, now playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process...
Perhaps you may think, dear reader, that within the gates marked "abandon all hope, and grow in wisdom" this writer has acquired knowledge of a more earthy nature. For what is Harvard really known for, in the "real world," if not as the nursery of captains of industry and political masterminds? But the truth is that I never joined the Student Productions Association, never met the undergrads who wear power ties to lunch in the Union. I never tapped into the great politico-economic power grid they call "the old school tie." I may be an ass, but I have...
...hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said a tearful detainee to the bishop: "We knew you wouldn't abandon...