Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently fired executives to frustrated college graduates to idle youths hanging out on street corners. Some haven't worked in months or years; others have never worked. With the economy in the doldrums and companies slashing payrolls, the ranks of the discouraged have been swelling rapidly as many workers abandon their search for jobs as hopeless. More than 981,000 Americans have dropped out of the labor market because of a lack of prospects -- up 12% from last year and 14% from 1989. When the Labor Department first started tracking the group in 1967, it found about 500,000 work...
Could he really introduce genuine democratic choice in Soviet elections, terrifying and infuriating apparatchiks from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other? Did he dare abandon the Communist Party's monopoly on political power? Could the system tolerate a free press? Could the Soviet people stand to hear the truth about their own past? Could they adjust to some version of free- market economics...
...even if that is not always true. At least we put the children first. These days we treat divorce as just another personal choice. Birth control has made it possible to choose when to have children, and liberalized divorce laws have made it easy to abandon them. Parents now spend 40% less time with their children than they did about 15 years...
...order to abandon ship automatically presupposes two rules: women and children first, and the captain is last to leave or goes down with his vessel. Romanticized in novels and films, as well as history, the maxims seem almost to have the force of law. Thus, though all 571 people aboard the Greek cruise liner Oceanos survived its spectacular sinking off the coast of South Africa last week, the ship's captain, Yiannis Avranas, has been widely castigated as both cowardly and irresponsible. Avranas, 51, left the Oceanos by rescue helicopter, while some 160 passengers, including several elderly and infirm, still...
...that requires the captain to remain to the end. Avranas, backed by his employers, argued that communications were so bad on board that the evacuation was best directed from land. But he did not help his cause with statements he made immediately after the disaster. "When I order abandon ship, it doesn't matter what time I leave," he said. "Abandon is for everybody. If some people like to stay, they can stay...