Word: abandonement
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When the first same-sex marriages are celebrated here, Massachusetts will truly make history. Hopefully, when people see that this does not “destroy society as we know it” (as one conservative commentator has predicted), they will abandon what the Goodridge court called the “destructive stereotype that same-sex relationships are…inferior to opposite-sex relationships and are not worthy of respect...
...political plan is a major roll of the dice for Washington. The harsh reality of the escalating insurgency has forced the Bush administration to abandon its program for direct U.S. supervision of a slow and thorough transition to Iraqi democracy. Instead, sovereign authority and control of the transition will be placed in the hands of a government chosen by Iraqis - even if the "electorate" is confined to elites vetted by Iraqis previously chosen by the U.S. to run various local, provincial and national councils...
...politically incorrect assertion that he planned to court voters who put Confederate-flag decals on their pickup trucks. (In his speech, Lincoln also engaged in some hand-wringing about his party's inability to win support down South.) But Dean's true purpose was to announce his desire to abandon the public campaign-finance system, as George W. Bush has done, and test his campaign's amazing ability to raise money from the grass roots against the President's ability to raise money from his wealthier backers. Dean put this choice to an Internet vote of his supporters...
...about it: Apart from his early stand against the war in Iraq, what has distinguished Dean's candidacy from that of the other Democrats? The propellant for the Dean surge has been almost all style and process--the Internet successes; the monthly Meetups; his stirring, plainspoken pugnacity; the joyful abandon of his campaign--and the sense of community he has aroused in his supporters...
...Hand Coat” that begins, “I feel/ in her pockets; she wore nice cotton gloves,/ kept a handkerchief box, washed her undies,/ ate at the Holiday Inn, had a basement freezer,/ belonged to a bridge club.” Thrift store clothes are loath to abandon their previous owners...