Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evidently, it is difficult to accurately predict the course of events in Iran in the next few years. But there are sufficient reasons to abandon the U.S. policy of neglecting Iran simply because it is ruled by a radical fundamentalist class...
...heels of the loss of the Senate, the Iran business seems to have raised basic questions in Moscow about how they should deal with Reagan, whether they need to bargain with him seriously or whether they can just wait for the next President." Reagan's decision last week to abandon the unratified SALT II ceilings on strategic weapons is likely to make Moscow even more standoffish...
...only reporter in Front Page who shows a residual trace of decency is Hildy Johnson (Richard Thomas), who wants to give the game up for a safe, lucrative job in advertising and marriage to a wholesome, dependable woman. To do so, however, he must abandon the newsman's one true romantic attachment: to the other boys in the pressroom. Seducing Hildy back is his editor Walter Burns (John Lithgow), a consummate user who plays to the reporter's vanity and yearning for power. The 6-ft. 4-in. Lithgow resembles a giant python, fixing victims with his stare, crushing them...
This arrogance has led Waldorf to believe that there is little hope for South Africa. He says that he found little incentive for the Afrikaaners to abandon their policy of apartheid...
...will Boesky abandon the stock-trading world right away: he will continue until April 1988 to exercise control, under the gaze of a court- appointed supervisor, over a diverse business empire that holds about $2 billion worth of securities. The transition period is intended to guarantee the "orderly and smooth transfer of control," meaning, in effect, the return of money to Boesky's many investors, who only last March anted up $900 million to participate in his speculations. In his statement, Boesky said he was "grateful" to the SEC for allowing him to insulate from harm others involved...