Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered a rare setback on the road to unity last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than later would protect his Christian Democrats from the disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification swell...
...move right along with him. His live show features 32 performers onstage at one time, but the indisputable center of attention remains Hammer. He has dumped the more or less standard rap choreography (strut, turn, grab crotch, strut) in favor of a stops-out, Paula Abdul kind of abandon. This boy can move, which is pretty much what he's been doing since the age of 11, when he started traveling with his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A's, as a bat boy and all-around gofer...
...Democratic congressional leadership that was in bed with the S&L operators." More important, Black contends, the President will earn new respect for his efforts to negotiate a deficit-reduction compromise with Congress. Yet by a stark majority (60% to 34%), Americans think Bush was wrong to abandon his "no new taxes" pledge...
According to the Holy Koran, the world will end not through fire or flood but by earthquake. "The earthquake of the Hour of Doom is a terrible thing," reads the Koran. Mothers will abandon their babies. Humankind will totter as if in a drunken stupor. There is no escape. The earth will give up its secrets. All good will be revealed. And all evil...
...size and format in an effort to become more accessible and compete with proliferating local cable guides. Leslie Hinton, president of Murdoch Magazines, rejects speculation that foreign investors want out of the U.S. altogether. "Things go up and down," he says. "It would be pretty shortsighted of us to abandon the market right...