Word: abandonment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...left for the summer, gained a new perspective on my life and decided to abandon the pre-med track. I came back to Harvard where my classmates were searching for the highest-paying jobs. I half-heartedly went through recruiting because I didn't know what else to do. But when faced with an offer of a consulting position, I panicked. I finally realized I didn't want the same thing that so many Harvard students wanted...
...like this year's "Great Grape Debate," in which student activists tried in vain to continue a University-wide boycott on grapes, the food conservation program failed to muster University support, forcing students to abandon plans to influence the world with their dinner plates...
That left Christman in a bind. "The annulment meant there was no marriage," he says. Army lawyers told him to abandon his efforts to expel the couple. "Since, following the annulment, no marriage ever existed legally," he says, "we felt strongly we couldn't sustain the separation." Army officials say the two were punished, short of expulsion, although they decline to offer details or identify the couple. Through an Army spokesman, the pair declined to be interviewed...
...puny human attempts to restart it. The malfunctioning mainframe may prevent space shuttle Discovery from picking up the Australian-born Andrew Thomas this Friday, since NASA flight regs prohibit docking without an operational steering system on the other end. Now shuttle managers are meeting to decide whether to abandon Tuesday's launch altogether...
...watch on Family Matters began a few weeks after its debut in September 1989, when the show's ostensible stars, the Winslow family, were visited by the kid next door, a nasal-voiced geek with huge glasses, pants hiked to his armpits and unflagging enthusiasm. Played with Jerry Lewis abandon by Jaleel White, the character caught on with audiences and quickly pulled a Fonzie, taking over the series. As years went on, the show grew increasingly outlandish. White--now well into adolescence and towering over actors he once looked up to, his high-pitched whine making him sound less like...