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Evidently, it is difficult to accurately predict the course of events in Iran in the next few years. But there are sufficient reasons to abandon the U.S. policy of neglecting Iran simply because it is ruled by a radical fundamentalist class...
This arrogance has led Waldorf to believe that there is little hope for South Africa. He says that he found little incentive for the Afrikaaners to abandon their policy of apartheid...
Pragmatically, Koop might be well advised to abandon campaigning for vivid AIDS instruction in the third grade. The delay of a couple of years would not greatly undermine his overall goal. But the largest problem entwined in sex-ed courses cannot be so easily evaded or resolved. The subject is impossible to teach without plunging into the question of values. Many educators assert that curriculums can be made value free, a dubious idea at best...
...will Boesky abandon the stock-trading world right away: he will continue until April 1988 to exercise control, under the gaze of a court- appointed supervisor, over a diverse business empire that holds about $2 billion worth of securities. The transition period is intended to guarantee the "orderly and smooth transfer of control," meaning, in effect, the return of money to Boesky's many investors, who only last March anted up $900 million to participate in his speculations. In his statement, Boesky said he was "grateful" to the SEC for allowing him to insulate from harm others involved...
...immigrant society such as this one, the bilingualism one most frequently encounters is "folk bilingualism"--associated with the working classes, thus undesirable and undervalued. Members of recent immigrant groups are induced to abandon their traditional languages in order to become "good Americans", while upper middle class high school juniors are sent off to Europe or to Latin America to acquire a second language...