Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since famed Pentecostalist Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was accused of faking her own kidnaping in the Roaring Twenties has the nation witnessed a spectacle to compare with the lurid adultery-and-hush-money scandal that has forced a husband-and-wife team of televangelists, Jim and Tammy Bakker, to abandon their multimillion-dollar spiritual empire and seek luxurious refuge in Palm Springs, Calif...
...building modern plants to turn them out in huge quantities. The American chipmakers acknowledge that they cannot make some types of chips as cheaply as Japanese companies can, but U.S. buyers of chips, as well as Pentagon officials, think it would be unwise to allow U.S. manufacturers to abandon making any important types of semiconductors. Moreover, U.S. chipmakers claim they can still profitably manufacture specialized semiconductors like microprocessors...
...influence on receiving the money in September," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. Noted Abrams: "By September there will be in excess of 15,000 men inside Nicaragua fighting hard, and I don't think it's going to be so easy for the Democrats to say, 'Let's abandon them...
Nevertheless, neither side can be expected to abandon SDI research at this time, since the possibility of unexpected successes cannot be ruled out. What may be even more important and realistic is that the concentration of resources on the cutting edge of technology may result in important spinoffs in peaceful and military fields, such as in computer science. I still believe all these considerations and possibilities to be secondary in comparison with the enormous cost of SDI and the negative influence of SDI on strategic stability and disarmament negotiations...
...often been suggested by weak-minded theologians that we should abandon violent confrontation and settle our disputes through conversation or by playing a game of some sort, but this is foolish for we would still need an arms buildup in order to kill the enemy in case they cheated...