Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell 150 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan. This shattered a 1982 Sino-American agreement in which the U.S. promised to reduce arms sales to Taiwan gradually and not exceed the level being supplied at the time. By disregarding this agreement, Bush has given China a reason to abandon its pledge to stick to weapons treaties...
...Keynesian liberals did for decades before -- that the business cycle has been abolished. If not, the calendar is against you: we cannot wait until full recovery from the current recession to begin serious deficit reduction and hope to have it completed before the next recession becomes an excuse to abandon the exercise...
...plea that pulses behind the multitude of voices is one that urges us against the way we avert our eyes and close our ears. It urges us to abandon the opaque tunnels down which we race so blindly, so deafly. It urges us against the coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward...
Competition from low-cost, entrepreneurial private schools will pressure public institutions to abandon such inefficiencies as the tenure system. They will also give up the 10-month school year, a relic of the time when students had to do farm work in summertime. Year-round schooling is a more efficient use of resources; summer breaks tend to make the first and last months of the term virtually useless anyway...
Some English professors believe students shouldn't write these for the wrong reasons. The department sent seniors writing theses a letter this fall listing a number of reasons to abandon their research plans...