Word: abandons
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...short, A Community Carol, Dickens transposed to the ghetto, is daring but definitely not disrespectful. In a season when most regional theaters abandon creative integrity for a gold-digging, anodyne version of A Christmas Carol replete with chestnuts (in both senses) but not a lot of consciousness raising, the adaptation now playing at Washington's Arena Stage is a welcome alternative. Much of it is slapstick, too many of its gags come from easy TV references, and its worn-on-the-sleeve liberalism can play fast and loose with facts: Scrooge is condemned for not ponying up a ludicrously understated...
...Protestant paramilitary units, dedicated to keeping Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom, have become increasingly active. In the past two years, they killed more people in Northern Ireland than did the I.R.A. Says Peter Robinson, a hard-line Unionist politician: "If they believe that the British are about to abandon them, you can expect more violence...
...Italians Abandon Center...
...approaching this limit quickly; health care now consumes 14 percent of the GDP. In the coming years, we must work to get the most social benefit for the money we spend. As we continue to develop the technological resources to extend life and cure disease, we may have to abandon some of those developments...
...clinch the deal, De Klerk had to abandon demands for ironclad guarantees that whites and other minorities would share power indefinitely. He had sought a system in which whites would in effect have a permanent veto in such vital affairs of state as defense, foreign policy and the economy. But last week he gave up his insistence that the new coalition Cabinet could act only with a two-thirds vote. Instead the President will be required merely to consult the Cabinet in a "consensus-seeking" spirit...