Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UNITED NATIONS HAS ACHIEVED innumerable successes throughout its existence. To abandon it in the face of challenge is simply a waste of 50 years [UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23]. PATRICK M. FERGUSSON, Vancouver, Canada Via E-mail...
...assassination is not the work of a lone lunatic. As the peace process marched on, Prime Minister Rabin at its helm, radical rightist elements began to abandon any pretense of respecting the authority of the Labor government. Rabin the traitor--not only to the Jewish state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that...
Will and Sandel, perhaps America's foremost conservative and liberal philosophers, stand hand-in-hand in the belief that America must head into a time of a new republicanism, in which the government will abandon its value-neutral pretenses and actively seek to mold citizens to embody certain virtues so that they will be better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable...
...been a perfect organization. However, it is the only worldwide forum of its kind. We should not abandon it because of petty administrative problems and thereby lose sight of its higher ideal of international peace. And until a Congress representing 50 states can run perfectly without wasteful spending and sluggishness, it can hardly expect perfection from a U.N. representing 185 sovereign nations...
...Cambridge will have fewer federal resources, but we must not abandon the needy, and we must try to reduce costs," he says...