Word: abandonning
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...appreciate what has happened, you will have to abandon cherished notions and open your mind. You will have to enter a world in which your genes are not puppet masters pulling the strings of your behavior but puppets at the mercy of your behavior, in which instinct is not the opposite of learning, environmental influences are often less reversible than genetic ones, and nature is designed for nurture...
...went bankrupt in the late 1990s because of cronyism and other inefficiencies in its keiretsu. But suppliers, in both the U.S. and Japan, have been more willing to invest in equipment to manufacture new technologies--such as hybrid electric-gasoline engines--out of confidence that Japanese automakers won't abandon them, or the technology, before they can recoup costs. The Big Three now want to outsource more R. and D. to suppliers, but Detroit has made low cost a priority, tending to negotiate short-term deals and drop contracts with partsmakers if a better offer emerges--resulting, sometimes, in mutual...
...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...
...government blames rebels for the flaring hostilities. Under a cease-fire brokered last December by the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, GAM agreed to abandon its 26-year armed struggle and accept autonomy as a starting point for negotiations. But GAM's leaders - possibly emboldened by East Timor's successful breakaway from Jakarta in 1999 - continue to vow that Aceh will one day be a sovereign entity. What's more, they have yet to begin disarming...
North Korea also indicated that it might be willing to abandon its nuclear program in return for a package of assistance and concessions from the United States. This suggestion was rejected almost immediately by President Bush. The United States is prepared to talk with North Korea in multilateral settings but it is in no mood to offer carrots. Hence diplomacy does not look hopeful. The Bush Administration seems inclined to find ways of pressuring North Korea—by urging the Chinese to cut aid, by interdicting North Korea’s illicit traffic in arms and drugs?...