Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote. Even with defections by Leach and New York Representative Michael Forbes, most House Republicans are expected to endorse Gingrich for a second term. TIME's Karen Tumulty reports that while Leach is highly respected in the House, it's uncertain whether he will persuade other GOP representatives to abandon Gingrich. Forbes is the only Republican who has stated flatly that he will vote against Gingrich, though he says some two dozen of his colleagues share his thinking. With Republicans holding a scant 227-207 majority in a vote that usually breaks on partisan lines, Gingrich needs every GOP vote...
...City real estate broker, has no trouble selling eight-room apartments at an average price of $1,170,000, vs. $889,000 last year, many to Wall Street types, who typically pay 100% cash. Chairperson Barbara Corcoran sees only one difference from the '80s: "Then everybody bought with reckless abandon. In the '90s they put on a show of caution--and then they buy with reckless abandon...
...this, and we think, What a spectacle! What a corruption of the season! Why can't we abandon this frenzied exchange of the unneeded and the unaffordable? Why not give gifts of the spirit and the soul instead...
Should Harvard forever abandon the idea of instituting an honor code? Rudenstine admitted he didn't know. He added that we would have to take Harvard's temperature--of faculty and students alike--to see if an honor code could work. I would like to think Harvard could handle it, that Harvard students could maintain the honor their signatures imply. But maybe that will have to wait another 360 years...
...President Suharto, who was behind the 1975 invasion, claims the question of East Timor's sovereignty was settled in 1976 when an local Indonesian-backed legislature voted for annexation. Citing millions of dollars spent to develop East Timor's infrastructure, schools and hospitals, Suharto?s government is unwilling to abandon the island even in the face of international disapproval...