Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gray stressed that he was leaving to devote more time to his family and the Philadelphia church that he pastors. Since few people in Washington ever voluntarily abandon a powerful position, his hasty departure sparked speculation about his real motives. He declined to comment on rumors that investigations of his finances have driven him away, and the Justice Department also refused to comment. The more plausible explanation is financial: leaving Congress will enable Gray to become a member of corporate boards and greatly increase his income...
...accord, permitting U.S. forces to stay after the old agreement expires on Sept. 16, was "within reach." But then Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that had been dormant for 600 years, erupted and accomplished what Filipino nationalists had failed to do since independence: force the U.S. military to abandon Clark, which is eight miles east of the cone. Both sides admit the explosions threw negotiations into limbo...
...Will the National Institutes of Health--the major source of research money for medical institutions--abandon "indirect cost-blind" peer review, with science taking a back seat to funds...
...forthcoming book, The New Corporate Frontier, author David Heenan, chief executive of Hawaii's Theo. H. Davies conglomerate, argues that a vast new American migration is under way as companies abandon big cities and old- line industrial regions. Says he: "The corporate downsizing of the 1980s proved that you don't need a Pentagon-size bureaucracy to run a business. Downsizing led to outsourcing of suppliers, and has now led to a movement to ship out the whole company. After all, with new technologies, you can run even a global business out of a small town." He's right. Just...
...universities are beginning to confront tighter budgets, some say they will also face increased pressure to abandon their expensive need-blind admissions policies...