Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the entire contest Harvard was forced to abandon its passing game in favor of a much less predictable air attack...
...problems. Kennedy loyalists argue that J.F.K. was no more than an interested bystander in the CIA campaign to murder Castro. But during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Hersh writes, Kennedy was in fact expecting that Castro would be quickly assassinated by Giancana's men. His fateful decision to abandon the whole thing was the abrupt consequence of his getting the news that the Cuban leader was still alive...
What's happened? For three decades the twentysomething years were marked with arch abandon, each generation extending playtime a little longer. Not so long ago, this was the time for visits to nightclubs, apartments decorated with listing-board bookcases and taped posters, and rendezvous with the one--or the second or the third--who was about to get away. Now, rather suddenly, this generation dreams of Pottery Barn, slipcovered sofas and tuna-noodle surprise. "I read cookbooks," admits Angela Lee, 27, a New York teacher. "And my last five social occasions? I cooked and friends came over...
...interesting that a country that prides itself on having original thinkers so readily embraces a religion that uses conundrums, or koans, as a training device to force the mind to abandon logic. Have we quit thinking? MARY SHAFFER Frederick...
East Asia is a hot-money area. Speculators move in and out of it with swashbuckling abandon. As in any once volcanic, now cold-as-ice market, when the selling gets to be so great, the leveraged speculators have to raise capital to meet margin calls on stocks they bought on credit. This week the in-hock guys with the worst balance sheets liquidated, and markets worldwide got banged...