Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simpson sees his legislation as a way to keep business from driving down American wages and giving away jobs to foreigners willing to accept low wages. "Employers should be able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
Because this year, young America cannot afford to throw its hands up in disgust; this year, young America cannot afford to give up on our political system; this year, young America cannot afford to abandon the political debate that is about to take place--because if it does, it will find itself severely punished with suffocating taxes, a much lower standard of living and exacerbated social problems in the 21st century...
...many as 70,000 Serbs could join the exodus by March 19. After talks with NATO officials, Krajisnik said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...
...principles at stake in the fight to balance the budget, there may be just one that neither Republicans nor Democrats dare to abandon: the pleasure principle. It rests on two basic premises. The first is that if you make voters happy, they repay the kindness at election time. The second is that the fastest way to their hearts is through their wallets. As Gingrich put it in November, "No politician in the 20th century has been defeated for cutting taxes...
...question pro football fans are asking in Cleveland, Houston, Chicago, Tampa, Phoenix, Seattle and Cincinnati--all cities whose professional football teams are threatening to leave. It's the same question once asked by fans in Los Angeles, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland and New York--all cities whose teams did abandon them in the 1980s and '90s. No Fixed Location? No Fan Loyalty? National Flux League...