Word: discardable
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...history of undergraduate education at Harvard. The Preliminary Report of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Task Force on General Education, released last Wednesday, charts a radically different course from its predecessors. Designed to prepare undergraduates for membership in contemporary global society, the proposed program would discard the Core Curriculum’s once-revolutionary “modes of inquiry” approach, while continuing to require undergraduates to take a prescribed number of courses in a set number of thematic areas. In plain English, it’s a very big deal...
...They chuck them. "TSA-confiscated items are discarded in the same way we discard other prohibited items," says TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe. If you get to the airport and suddenly realize you forgot to take your favorite face cream out of your purse, look around the screening area; some airports have a U.S. Mail drop box that allows you to send prohibited items to your destination and pay with a credit card or cash...
...Nevertheless, what is common from Milton Friedman to John Mackey is a fervent, but tempered belief in individual choice. Importantly, liberty does not have to come at the expense of society’s plunge into an anarchic abyss; few libertarians would defend the choice of an industry to discard toxic chemicals into a river...
...undermined by a hard-line U.S. position.Reassured by the reasonable, non-aggressive intentions of the United States and buttressed by a citizenry willing to reconcile with the U.S., they might seize the initiative to effect a more cautious and receptive Iranian position. Of course, the U.S. should not entirely discard all punitive or coercive policy options, including the possibility of inflicting disarming air strikes upon Iran in case the strategy fails and an Iranian nuclear weapon becomes imminent. However, it is still far from that point, so conditional guarantees against attack are advisable. The United States must be very careful...
...Washington who can construct a unified strategy worthy of them. It is time to send a signal to our nation, our forces and the world that we are uncompromising on our security but are prepared to rethink how we achieve it. It is time for senior military leaders to discard caution in expressing their views and ensure that the President hears them clearly. And that we won't be fooled again...