Word: abandons
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...legalizing euthanasia to accelerate their inheritance. How fitting if the generation that ushered in these changes became the first to succumb to them on a grand scale. Our fragile civilization is grounded on Judeo-Christian ethics, which uphold the sanctity of human life. These we now recklessly abandon at our peril. MARY FRANCES DOUCEDAME Thousand Oaks, California...
...trademark quip, "I didn't know I had so many advisers on China." The problem, however, is deeper than that: Dole appears bereft of core beliefs on fundamental issues, such as whether the U.S. should extend China's "Most Favored Nation" trade status and whether the U.S. should abandon its longstanding "One China" policy by offering more support for Taiwan...
Meanwhile, back at the Columbia festival, the rain has finally stopped. The band takes the stage to a massive roar from the crowd, a Beatles in Liverpool, U2 in Dublin, Nirvana in Seattle hometown roar. With abandon, joy and a little bit of out-of-practice sloppiness, they tear through some old songs--Hannah Jane, Let Her Cry and Time--as well as a couple of the new numbers, Sad Caper and Be the One. Rucker screams his way through that last one, pulling and pawing at his shirt as if he's about to come...
...invites men and women to remain immature. In the case of Theodore John Kaczynski, the retreat to Montana without the community of his peers seems to be a retreat to childhood. His withdrawal has the unresponsive quality of a boy who wants to show his parents they can't abandon him--he will abandon them...
...some faculty members of the department said they do not think a cum laude degree will be sufficient motivation for honors hopefuls to abandon writing theses...