Word: abandons
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...putting them back under the pressure of hard times that persist for some workers even in the good times for the stock market. Blue-collar voters, most of them white and male, have been crucial to the G.O.P. coalition since the late 1960s, when they started to abandon the Democrats because of everything called liberalism--meaning, roughly, racial integration plus sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. So long as the economic grievances of those voters were secondary to their distaste for the '60s and its aftermath, the G.O.P. could court them without compromising its pro-business orthodoxies...
Blue's omniscience will make it omnipotent. It can play--fight--with the abandon of an immortal. Wilhelm Steinitz, a world chess champion who was even more eccentric than most, once claimed to have played chess with God, given him an extra pawn and won. Fine. But how would he have done against Blue...
Gingrich was particularly fascinated by Engler's strategic savvy. Kristol recalls that after the government shutdown failed to push the President into a budget deal and forced Gingrich to abandon the strategy, on Jan. 6 the exhausted Speaker sought out Engler, who was in town. "It was striking that after this momentous day in his leadership, he wanted to bounce ideas off John more than anyone else," says Kristol. The three rendezvoused in a Hyatt hotel coffee shop. "John had the insight that you couldn't force Clinton to do things," says Kristol, but that the Congress could send...
LONDON: In the wake of an IRA bombing which killed two, injured 37 and caused $125 million in property damage, Prime Minister John Major announced that Britain would not necessarily abandon peace talks with the organization. In a speech before the House of Commons on Monday, Major said there were "ways forward to negotiations with all the parties, but only if there is a return to the ceasefire". A disagreement over the timing of renewed talks is complicating the restoration of the ceasefire. While Major wants to complete the election of a special British peace-negotiating assembly before resuming...
Should BETA spot a signal that seems to meet the programmed criteria for artificiality, the radio telescope would abandon its fixed position and automatically leapfrog farther west so that the same sector of sky would pass before it again. If the suspect signal should then reappear in the same location, Leigh says, "alarms won't go off, but the computer will send us E-mail." And unlike earlier SETI programs, which sometimes signaled "hits" that after much excitement and analysis turned out to be beeps from prosaic Earthbound or orbiting electronic sources, BETA methodically compares signals from space to signals...