Word: abandonement
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...Azeroth add up to a lot of money. WoW subsists on a monthly subscription fee of $14.95, which means Blizzard rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars monthly. Their clientele are mostly young men like myself-the same young men who've been giving studio executives headaches as we abandon the box office...
...answer. I still can't shake the old taboos, and part of me wants desperately to impute them on my son. I am clear on what's being recreated on this second earth. But in age of climate change and war, I afraid I might be teaching him to abandon the first...
...Marine Corps grow to 202,000, an increase of 27,000. Both services have been calling for bump-ups for years, and some observers believe the the service chiefs' official support of the new strategy is the trade-off for getting their overall increases approved. Gates will also abandon the Pentagon policy of restricting National Guard and reserve troops to two years of combat duty for every five served, in order to be able to call up more for service in Iraq...
...week between Christmas and New Year's is normally one of carefree abandon in Rio de Janeiro. Cariocas, as the city?s residents are known, are on vacation, and with the Southern hemisphere's summer at its sizzling hottest, the two-month party leading up to carnaval is just beginning. But over this past holiday season, after a night of terror wrought by drug gangs who attacked police stations, gunned down law enforcement officers and burnt buses, the self-proclaimed Marvelous City was beset by a mix of fear and fatalism...
...winter break is cut short because of the courses in which they’re enrolled. Although the vast majority of American colleges and universities have already recognized the advantages of pre-vacation final exams and a humane winter break, some have argued that we should not abandon our unique calendar in favor of some more conventional scheme. On the contrary, the uniqueness of our calendar is part of what makes it so problematic. Many summer jobs and internships begin in early or mid-May, the time when most schools let out. Because most Harvard students must wait until late...