Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gruesome project is unlikely to be what changes their minds.In crafting her project, our new favorite Yalie was capitalizing on shock value in order to put forth a very basic conception of sex politics—that we should not conflate gender and sexuality. But to merely abandon the mainstream medium is not a guarantee virtue. Alas, Shvarts should have been dismissed as an attention-seeking ninny, but instead she was launched into the national spotlight. Just how far has our bar fallen? The rush to affirm our commitment to social progressivism on college campuses has sadly left...
Second, the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of subsidizing the conversion of food into biofuels. The U.S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed subsidy of 51 per gal. of ethanol to divert corn from the food and feed-grain supply. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods--tree crops (like palm oil), grasses and wood products--but there's no case for doling out subsidies to put the world's dinner into the gas tank...
...people were about to abandon ship because they did not give answers to us,” Protopapas said, adding that he stayed because the IIC remains “the only place” he can do the cross-disciplinary research that he is pursuing...
...representative of the Palestinian people as soon as each had renounced its intention to eliminate the Jewish State and sit together at the negotiating table. It has never advocated for the elimination of any people or state and, instead, yearns that others, such as Ahmadinejad’s Iran, abandon their genocidal aims. Time and again, Israel has proven its willingness to talk to anyone who advocates a shared vision of peace and non-violence...
...height of his popularity, Lee helped lead half a million marchers through the streets of Hong Kong on July 1, 2003, forcing pro-Beijing lawmakers to abandon a controversial anti-subversion bill. Since then however, the number of marchers in the annual protest has steadily dwindled. Lee doesn't seem worried. "When there's a good reason again, they?ll come out," he says. "Never discount Hong Kong people's enthusiasm...