Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election might seem about as good as the chances of surviving a head-on collision with a train. That, at least, was the opinion of many Kenyans one year ago, when President Daniel arap Moi started his campaign after Western donors cut off development aid, demanding that he abandon his single-party rule and hold an election. Fortunately for Moi, however, the opposition turned out to be so deeply divided that the President emerged the apparent winner in his first electoral encounter in 14 years. Running against seven challengers, he squeaked by with 38% of the popular vote, though half...
...corporate culture has been drastically altered by the radical changes under way. After years of enjoying the comfort of lifetime employment, IBM workers now labor under the threat of dismissal and the pressure of pay-for- performance. For many IBMers, the company's announcement last week that it may abandon its no-layoffs policy merely formalized what Big Blue has already been doing. Although IBM largely relied on attrition and early-retirement programs to reduce its labor force by 100,000 from a peak of 406,300 workers in 1985, the company began de facto layoffs last year through...
Many seniors opted to abandon their less-desirable assigned seats during the game, instead infiltrating reserved sections...
...full view of world media, the demonstration turned into an ugly spectacle of egg-splatting, paint-bombing counterprotest -- staged not by the neo-Nazi right, whose xenophobia prompted the march in the first place, but by some 400 left-wing anarchists. Chancellor Helmut Kohl was forced to abandon the procession shortly after beginning it. More enduring was the image of Germany's distinguished President, Richard von Weizsacker, his coat splotched by eggs, wanly shouting a message of peace from behind a thicket of police riot shields...
...Woodward as his courier) that the "read my lips" pledge was a campaign maneuver, urged by Roger Ailes to counter the picture of Bush as a wimp. Bush resisted making a dubious pledge, but once it was made, once his manhood was vindicated by it, he could abandon the pledge only at his peril. If he did not break it, one tool was denied him in coping with mounting interest payments on the deficit (which doubled in Bush's years). If he did break it, his macho moment became an empty charade...