Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like here to call upon the PBHA Board of Trustees to move to address these lingering and glaring "fault-lines." Not to do so is essentially to relinquish management responsibility to Harvard College. If such is to be the future course, why not formally abandon the corporation and at least give the College managers a fair and open shot...
...performance. In Boston, it's more of a mixed crowd. We're getting people 70 years old, getting retired people. It's a different kind of a crowd. In New York, sometimes you'll get older people, but that's maybe in the warmer weather. So we would never abandon [the twenty-dollar ticket]. We think it's great. It's also good for the audience because anyone who buys those tickets is very enthusiastic...
...happen, though, will boomerang harshly on the Palestinians. Israel immediately closed off the territories and promised retaliation; Netanyahu has always kept open the option of sending Israeli troops back into the areas now under Palestinian control. Even worse, he might decide to use the bombing as a pretext to abandon, once and for all, the talks he has always opposed...
Indeed they have. Vlora's angry residents wrecked the town hall, the police station and SHIK headquarters, where six officers were killed in the attack. They looted the bank and warehouses and raided army depots abandoned by unhappy and undisciplined soldiers. It seems that every man in town has an AK-47 and fires it with abandon. At nightfall the constant crack of machine guns and the booming of explosives tossed into the harbor are deafening. Since last week 20 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by gunfire, and a nurse at the Vlora hospital says perhaps...
...dawning on me that the Windows I've scorned for so long might in fact be the One True Way. I've always been an honest, DOS-fearing man, so I go in search of spiritual comfort from the ultimate convert himself: Steve Capps. Capps didn't just abandon a long, brilliant career at Apple. He joined the forces of the Antichrist. He went to work for Microsoft...