Word: abandonment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sustained note so that it hits a dramatic sweet spot, Marsalis' trumpet is particularly voicelike in its expressiveness--for him, a "with strings" outing is almost a natural. At times Robert Freedman's arrangements buoy him tastefully; at others they egg the normally cerebral player on to romantic abandon. It's the best sort of marriage between pop warmth and jazz brains...
...government." Carter, close friend of Yasser Arafat (and, at one point, his virtual speechwriter) and hero in the Arab world, wrote letters to the heads of state of the members of the U.N. Security Council, and later to the Arab heads of state, pleading with them to abandon President Bush's painstakingly assembled coalition against Saddam Hussein. Later on, Carter admitted his tactics were "not appropriate." But he never apologized...
...message seriously, because for months they had been hearing the same thing, and worse, from an even more indisputable source: James Dobson, the country's most powerful representative of conservative Christianity. Dobson, a psychologist and radio host who heads Focus on the Family, threatened earlier this year to abandon the Republican Party and form his own organization, taking with him some of the 28 million people who follow his broadcasts every week. In panicked response, G.O.P. leaders have moved away sharply from the do-little approach that has characterized Congress's deliberations since last summer in favor of an agenda...
...allowed my bastard contacts to jerk me around until early March, when I decided to abandon the connection game and secure employment based on my own merits. Of course this new strategy presupposed that I had merits, but I neglected to identify this flaw in my approach until it was far too late. Remembering that my goal from the outset was to sell out, I asked myself, "What company best represents the ideals of exploitation and greed?" The answer was obvious: Microsoft...
...Guide forms need to be distributed on previously-specified days so that all students can take advantage of the forms. Nearly eighty-five ninety-sevenths of those who bother filling out the forms hail and applaud their professors and teaching fellows, bestowing fours and fives upon them with reckless abandon. Only a handful bother with twos or threes and only the tiniest smattering of students dare to bubble in a one. A large minority of respondents do not even write any comments at all, preferring to leave future students to their unadvised fates...