Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After concluding his tales, the thwarted Hoffmann quips, "How strange a woman's fancy!" He is then visited by his Muse, who urges him to abandon the quixotic and capricious pursuit of women, in exchange for the majestic call of poetry, represented by her gift of a pen. (For all you Moral Reasoning students, read: Art is a higher good than Love...
...that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard neighborhoods, hard-to-break families ties and Mafia connections impossible to abandon...
Shall the culprit remain nameless? Nosirree--why, it's Professor Steven J. Gould and the class is Science B-16. He's decided to abandon the perfectly reasonable system of unfairness to a small minority and extend the privilege to the entire class...
...populations of the Grand Banks have fallen 95 percent. Populations of breeding-age Atlantic bluefin tuna have fallen more than 90 percent. In many places, the losses of commercial fish stocks have been catastrophic, and in the last decade tens of thousands of fishermen have been forced to abandon their boats. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that preserving fish habitat -- and therefore the industry -- was "one of the top national priorities." Regional fishery councils will have to identify "essential fish habitat" and the pressures that threaten them. The guidelines are part of a law sponsored...
...Diego Chargers, I can now say that I know two people from San Diego and that they're actually okay, though they mourned for a while after Pittsburgh defeated them. When someone insults the sad record of the Philadelphia 76ers, I can't join in with complete abandon, because I know that somewhere in Hollis, there is someone rooting for them...