Word: abandonement
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...understand why I didn't just say, 'No more,'" he says. In some ways he has moved on, launching, among other projects, a Caribbean resort, a London bagelry and a fast-food chain named after his partner, the (11th and current) Earl of Sandwich. But Earl refuses to abandon his often lonely Planet. "I've got a lot of people I need to win for," Earl says, practically seething as he describes "some wanker journalist" asking political hopeful and former Planet partner Arnold Schwarzenegger about the company's financial troubles. Sure, Earl would love to win one for the Terminator...
...SAT’s, until it became, in effect, a vocational school for every extracurricular activity under the sun, where students breezed through classes between rehearsals, practices or lab time—precisely the opposite of the liberal arts ideal it seeks to embody. It would, in short, abandon the broken leg test. It might also take a disproportionate number of community service-minded applicants on the grounds that they demonstrated uncommon personal qualities, contrary to administrators’ reminder to first-years that they are here primarily to learn and to participate in Harvard life...
...writing in response to The Crimson’s staff editorial, “Veritas on the Beat,” published on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Whatever the appropriateness of The Crimson editorializing about its own lawsuit, the Harvard community has the right to expect that The Staff not abandon its fundamental notions of fairness and accuracy. Instead, the Crimson editorial involved the highly-selective use of facts to create an impression of “cover up” and “corruption” that does not exist. In doing so, The Crimson has disserved its readers...
...looking out into the twilight of the pleasantest four years of your life/ grow cold with culture like a cup of tea forgotten between an incenseburner and a volume of Oscar Wilde.” Cambridge Octobers are cold enough. A chilly maturity will not improve them; a warm abandon will...
...trading floor was very aggressive,” says Benson. She eventually decided to abandon her brokerage career...