Word: abandons
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...wanted to write (he has published an autobiography and two volumes of fiction). But none of these reasons has dislodged the conviction, still held by many fans, critics and fellow musicians, that a gift like Shaw's is something you just don't abandon...
...Parker's credit, she didn't abandon her new game. And once she returned to Cambridge, she began to reap the benefits of her patience...
...abandon with which director George Reyes depicts the ride captures Alan's true spirit beautifully--wild, free, untamed. "Make us one person," he pleads with Equus...
...great expansion that took place after World War II, American colleges and universities sought to be all things to all people. In the new age of austerity, schools are being forced to rethink their missions, decide what they can do best and -- in a form of academic triage -- abandon certain fields of learning to others. Rice University in Houston has often been called "the Harvard of the South" (although these days the motto should be reversed, claims its president, George Rupp). Rice has flourished by trying to recruit National Merit scholars, who constitute 40% of the class...
...Manhattan's Little Italy. Then there is John Gotti Jr., 28, cut from the same cloth as his father but widely disliked. Tommy Gambino, son of the family's founding father, once seemed a likely successor, but in February he pled guilty to antitrust charges and was ordered to abandon the trucking monopoly that gave the family control of the garment center...