Word: abolishment
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...would never want to abolish reading period because it's a great time to relax," says Maria E. Gonzalez '97. Gonzalez notes that many houses hold study breaks throughout the week, offering house-bound students a chance to relax and mingle with peers...
...There has been a steady trend to abolish generals over the past twenty years," Pilbeam wrote in an e-mail. "This reflects a growing liberalization and specialization within concentrations [because] students take quite disparate course schedules within concentrations and...there is no overall syllabus for a particular concentration...
About one-third of all undergraduate English concentrators sent in a petition this year asking the department to abolish general exams. Talusan, one the organizers of the petition, says that "the idea of a unified canon is obsolete...
Beijing immediately declared the new legislature illegal and vowed to abolish it the moment China resumes sovereignty. Enter C.H. Tung. The territory's first homegrown leader was chosen by a 400-member selection committee that was itself picked by Beijing. The quietly effective power broker seemed uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between Hong Kong's promised autonomy and the new landlord's demand for control. For a time, Tung seemed to manage the delicate balancing act. He paid fealty to the "Chinese values" revered by his patrons even as he voiced confidence he could maintain Hong Kong's Western...
These ideas have not caught on. Defense Secretary Cohen ducks the issue. Others, like former Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, seem to think de-alerting would distract people from the campaign to abolish the weapons altogether...