Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Having insisted in Congressional testimony on March 2 that the people "want details, not soundbites," should Perot abandon his hollow rhetoric in favor of specific proposals...
...proponent of openness and honesty, should Perot abandon the secrecy that has surrounded his organization...
Multiculturalists abandon the liberal rationale for affirmative action, which is to help disadvantaged minorities meet established standards on their own, for the radical rationale of diversity, which is to redefine standards in a way that confirms that everyone is equal now. It turns out, ironically, that multiculturalists have less in common with liberals than they do with far-right conservatives: The only difference is that one is culturally egalitarian and the other is culturally elitist. Neither offers a vision of social progress...
President Clinton faces the challenge of creating a post-cold war foreign policy. He seems to want it to be activist, including the possibility of military action in support of democracy and human rights. Especially given his own lack of military experience, he should be happy to abandon any claim to the right to commit U.S. troops unilaterally (except in genuine emergencies) -- a right he does not possess under the Constitution in any event...
...simultaneously Eliot has resisted the temptation to abandon the qualities of the house which have distinguished its truly hallowed halls. "Even with non-ordered choice, we have still managed to maintain our character as Eliot House," says Amir Goldkorn '94. "We have not succumbed to the forces that are making other houses just like dorms...