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...Italians Abandon Center...
...approaching this limit quickly; health care now consumes 14 percent of the GDP. In the coming years, we must work to get the most social benefit for the money we spend. As we continue to develop the technological resources to extend life and cure disease, we may have to abandon some of those developments...
...clinch the deal, De Klerk had to abandon demands for ironclad guarantees that whites and other minorities would share power indefinitely. He had sought a system in which whites would in effect have a permanent veto in such vital affairs of state as defense, foreign policy and the economy. But last week he gave up his insistence that the new coalition Cabinet could act only with a two-thirds vote. Instead the President will be required merely to consult the Cabinet in a "consensus-seeking" spirit...
...hadn't kept going. Set in New York's Little Italy in the years following World War II, "Household Saints" is an exploration of the lives of three generations of Italian-American women that starts off rich in detail and comedy, and ends in an inexplicable twist of surrealist abandon...
...thus been extemely turbulent in South Korea. Largely unnoticed by the outside world, Korea--an increasingly important player on the world stage--has undergone a historic and often painful break with tradition. Critics of the new president complain that he is dismantling the system too quickly and with reckless abandon...