Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quayle makes much of the theme of the absent father; America under the Bush Administration looks like a house with an absent father. A man has no right to abandon the family for years and then show up one day and go upstairs and start spanking the kids...
...solution -- at least in broad outline -- is also fairly clear. The nations of the world must abandon those practices that are self-destructive in favor of what environmentalists like to call "sustainable development." A sustainable society is one that manages its economic growth in such a way as to do no irreparable damage to its environment. By balancing economic requirements with ecological concerns, it satisfies the needs of its people without jeopardizing the prospects of future generations...
Smith knows that his stance is more polemical than practical; no one truly expects men to abandon the gynecological field. Nor should they, as many women patients will attest. That would be the equivalent of saying only male doctors should minister to men and Doogie Howsers to children -- and solely the boys at that. What makes far more sense is Smith's call for a radical restructuring of women's health care. Among his proposals: overhauling medical education so that male doctors understand what it means to be a woman...
...call-in polls are about as representative as trying to gauge the mood of the country by listening to talk radio. As James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas, argues, "Electronic town meetings are just a device to step outside established political mechanisms -- to abandon traditional forms of representation and elections -- in order to acquire a mantle of higher legitimacy. And in the very worst case, it could be invoked toward extraconstitutional ends...
...January 1994, federal laws will force theUniversity to abandon a mandatory facultyretirement age. Currently, Harvard professors mustretire...