Word: abandonments
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...Saving the banking system was not Lewis's job. Bernanke and Paulson had no right to ask him to abandon what were his very clear duties and press him into service doing something contrary to the obligations of his office. Since there will never be answers to what would have happened if B of A had abandoned Merrill it is useless to speculate about whether Paulson and Bernanke did the right thing. What happened when Lewis was asked to take a role which was not reasonably his is that the ethical obligation of refraining from force to pervert another person...
...high cost of caring for horses has sometimes led some owners to abandon their animals, to sell them to slaughterhouses or to attempts at fraud in order to collect insurance. But polo is a rich man's sport and Vargas certainly does not seem to have been hurting from the care and feeding of his steeds - or skimping on providing for them. His Lechuza Caracas polo team plays around the world, and he transports his stable of 60 ponies - estimated to cost about $100,000 each - on special jets...
...body itself may be preserved. Could there be treasures? The coiled skin of a snake? "A diary," offers Tyldesley, "would be fantastic." But Hawass and his team must hurry. The dig abuts the summer residence of President Hosni Mubarak, which may force the dozens-strong team of archaeologists to abandon work from May to November. The security concerns of Egypt's current ruler, after all, still outweigh the mystique of its past...
...most densely populated place in the world, the city sees its park benches packed while strangers share restaurant tables. And for the 40,000 people who die there every year, it turns out there's no respite from the crowds either. While land shortages forced most Hong Kongers to abandon burials in the 1980s, now the city has run out of space even for cremated ashes. By some estimates, around 50,000 families are presently storing their relatives' remains in funeral homes while they wait, perhaps for years, to secure a one-square-foot wall niche...
...little bit more understanding of where they come from. If you read this book, you'll certainly never be a bore at a dinner party. Everyone has experiences, and you're dealing with a lot of deep-seated convictions which are very difficult to get people to abandon. So in reading the book, you're going to discover a whole realm of thoughts that most people never even considered as being supernatural...