Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WARSAW--Polish Prime Minister Czeslaw Kiszczak said yesterday he is ready to resign and abandon his bid to form a new government so that the head of the smaller United Peasant Party, Roman Malinowski, can form a coalition government...
...should be the other way around. The Bush Administration should be trying harder to get China -- itself in need of some respectability these days -- to abandon its most disgraceful clients. The U.S. should also withhold aid to Sihanouk until he breaks with the Khmer Rouge entirely. Perhaps, deprived of all international tolerance, they will suffer defeats, lose their ability to recruit troops and fade into history...
...paint goes on thickly but not with abandon. The surface seems to store light, like stone. It is opaque; you can't see through it or even into it. It is not about space. Besides, the inlaid, modular, even puzzle-like surfaces of Scully's recent canvases prevent the eye from roaming them too freely. Stray out of one box and you finish in another, not on a free horizon. Hence the density, the lack of spaces between things, which adds to the gravity of Scully's work. It has something to do with the largeness of architecture...
Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in food supplies because prices and incomes had been frozen throughout July, and Poles, aware that sharp increases loomed, had cleared store shelves of most commodities...
...worse may be yet to come. To restructure the country's antiquated industry, Poland must abandon many of the concepts that have governed the economy for 40 years. Inefficient mines, mills and factories will have to be closed. Unemployment will have to be tolerated. So will growing differentials in wages and living standards. Hardest of all for party members will be the loss of cradle-to-grave security...