Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Radcliffe Union of Students Co-PresidentDeborah J. Wexler `95 said, "I applaud theirdecision but I hope their decision signals areadiness to abandon other forms of discriminationas well...
...Butt-head explains, "but that doesn't mean you have to. Huh-huh. Huh-huh. It would be cool if you did, though." As Beavis and Butt-head represent the voice of a new generation, their appeal is self-evident. They pass judgement on all they witness with total abandon in a culture unworthy of conformity, enjoying themselves in the process...
...truth, I think, is that Americans love marriage too much. We rush into marriage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on Earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses and hopes. In fact, we made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we loved it to death...
...Technology has not only failed to ease the conflict between man and nature," Gorbachev argued, "it has aggravated that conflict . . . The crisis of civilization that we see today is a crisis of the naive belief in the omnipotence of humanity." He contended that the world must abandon the urge to conquer nature and adopt a "philosophy of limits" based on an understanding that technology cannot solve all problems...
...last week's Science, they put forth evidence that the empire was undone by a combination of climatic catastrophes. First a volcanic eruption blanketed the region in ash. Then a drought, which eventually lasted 300 years, crippled the farming communities on which the cities depended, forcing urban dwellers to abandon their empty granaries and silent temples. Refugees migrated to southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), which had escaped the disaster. But the unexpected influx of people from the north so strained the region's resources that the Akkadian empire fell to neighboring hordes...