Word: discarding
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...truths”—as well as the presumption of James Conant, who presided over Harvard in the mid 1900s, to address his letter to his 21st-century successor as “My dear Sir”—Faust appeared to discard the tradition of the university’s founders as unfit according to current standards...
...whole. The passion of these students sheds light on the American dilemmas of incarceration, recidivism, and reintegration of former prisoners. CORI is a reality of the of the job application process, yet its revelation of any previous criminal offense is often enough to cause a potential employer to discard the application. This proves quite an obstacle for newly released prisoners, who cannot be expected to fully reintegrate into society without a means to support themselves. Ex-convicts must deal with this perpetual catch-22—live comfortably in prison, or live as an outcast outside of it?...
...magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
Many moderate Tories fear that Thatcher, having won such an impressive mandate, may now discard the caution she often displayed in her first term and let her instincts run their course. As the independent Observer...
...Unlike some who are born-again, Charlie doesn't discard his old ways. He's attracted to this unlikely, maybe undoable scheme in part because it requires his own special skill set, and in part because - as Charles Foster Kane said about running a newspaper - Charlie thinks it would be fun to bankroll a counterinsurgency. In the cheerful bravado of a can-do Texan, he thinks: Hell, why not? When Charlie masterminds it, war is swell...