Word: abandons
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...small feat to abandon successfully what's often been called the most innovative rock band ever, the founding fathers of punk, the band that did heroin when everyone else was doing acid. Critics can rave about the Velvets ad nauseam, and they often do. When the critics have positive words for the new Lou, they're usually in light of his former greatness...
...Unless he was simply trying to keep a lid on expectations for the meeting, the President last week seemed to drop a strong hint that it would be the ideologue. At his first formal press conference since undergoing surgery for cancer last July, Reagan declared that he would not abandon his cherished Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars, in exchange for cuts, however large, in the Soviet nuclear arsenal...
...White House to lower expectations about the forthcoming summit and the third round of nuclear-arms limitation talks, which began last week in Geneva. They were also aimed at sending a signal to the Soviets, who are waging a propaganda campaign to bring world pressure on the U.S. to abandon Star Wars...
...years ago, a group of feminists at the University of Massachusetts tried to for the school to abandon its nickname, the Minutemen, because it was "sexis...
...credit, Harvard did indeed abandon some of its aloofness last week when it devoted $1 million to an anti-apartheid fund. This was a generous move, but it was also clearly a use of the University's money to make a moral statement. Students now are asking the University to up the ante and make the moral statement even more powerful...