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...example, the Arab oil embargo of 1973 was intended to persuade the U.S. and other industrial nations to abandon their support of Israel. Instead of deserting Israel, Americans rallied to its defense, developing an intense anti-Arab sentiment that persists to this...
...Party Support--Of weightier import to the Silber camp, however, is the dearth of support their candidate will likely receive from Bellotti supporters, 75 percent of whom said they would rather abandon their party than cast a vote for Silber...
...CONTINUE to urge the College to abandon its archaic, aristocratic policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status--a biological accident--improves an applicant's chances of being admitted by almost three times...
Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered a rare setback on the road to unity last week when he had to abandon plans to advance the first all-German elections from Dec. 2 to Oct. 14. Opponents charged that Kohl hoped that facing voters sooner rather than later would protect his Christian Democrats from the disillusion of the electorate as the costs of unification swell...
...move right along with him. His live show features 32 performers onstage at one time, but the indisputable center of attention remains Hammer. He has dumped the more or less standard rap choreography (strut, turn, grab crotch, strut) in favor of a stops-out, Paula Abdul kind of abandon. This boy can move, which is pretty much what he's been doing since the age of 11, when he started traveling with his hometown baseball team, the Oakland A's, as a bat boy and all-around gofer...