Word: abandoning
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...certainly humourously, all Hell breaks loose. They get mugged trying to make a drug bust: "Come on," they say to their teeny bopper assailants, "let us keep the snap shots--and the badges." Their respective ex-wives with whom they are still in loved or at least in lust, abandon them for other guys. And the work on their big case, a sort of Puerto Rican Godfather story, goes awry...
...Titan 34D7 rockets are already on order, and the Air Force wants at least ten more to provide an increased launching capability beginning in 1988. Within a week or so, a National Security Council-led Interagency Group on Space is expected to recommend that NASA severely restrict or even abandon the launching of foreign and commercial satellites. The Reagan Administration believes private enterprise should compete for at least some of this business. More important, the Administration wants NASA to dedicate the bulk of its future shuttle payloads and research programs to the military, particularly missions for the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...Joshua Nkomo was mere terrorism. The settlement--which even Carrington and many members of his negotiating team had believed was impossible, they later said--perhaps could have been achieved only by someone with the unflagging pragmatism and clearheadedness of Carrington, who has demonstrated time and again the willingness to abandon political theory for realpolitik efficiency...
...Party leaders in key states see Cuomo's move as a practical one. Says New Hampshire State Democratic Chairman George Bruno: "It was the smart and logical thing to do." Cuomo is the Democrats' most influential and visible state executive, and it would make no sense for him to abandon his forum. Notes Alvin From, executive director of the Democratic Leadership Council: "The best strategy for a Governor in his position is to get safely re-elected this year...
While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...