Word: abandoned
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...Right Rev. John Howe, the conservative Episcopal bishop of Central Florida, as saying the statement wouldn't satisfy all Anglican leaders, but that "most will find it acceptable." But that may be wishful thinking on Howe's part, who despite his differences with church leadership says he will not abandon the American organization...
...question in medicine this days is, when do we abandon a procedure we know works really well in favor of a new one that may work better? Medicine 2.0 often involves incremental improvement of things we're already pretty good at - making things safer or faster, more reliable and, yes, more attractive to patients. That last one, called "patient acceptance" by the industry, is a huge factor in our for-profit, marketing-driven world. But should patients, even really bright patients, who read every word on the Internet about their afflictions, be driving such choices...
Rick R. McKellar ’10, a Felipe’s regular whose favorite offering is a packed Super Burrito, said he will probably try Chipotle once—but “it’d have to be pretty good” for him to abandon Felipe?...
...Israel's Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said that the new sanctions would not "cross the red line in terms of inflicting humanitarian damage." This precaution was seconded by Rice, who said, "We will not abandon the innocent Palestinians in Gaza." She added: "We will make every effort to deal with their humanitarian needs." But aid officials are skeptical that the moves being weighed by Israel such as turning off the power supply will hurt only militants and not the Palestinian civilians, many of them refugees, crowded into the narrow Gaza Strip. One international aid representative in Jerusalem denounced...
Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so "ungrateful, fickle, [and] false," he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality in dealing with them. He should slay deposed rulers and their families, recognize that friendship "yields nothing," and, beneath a veneer of compassion and honesty, master treachery and deceit. In short, because man is evil, leaders must know "how to do evil...