Word: doned
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...immigrant father who abandoned his family. A mediocre student who earned a law degree and built a successful legal practice through sheer determination, Sarkozy was, until recently at least, defiantly proud of his lowbrow tastes and crude manner. It connects him with ordinary people, he says, and gets things done. (Still, Sarkozy's not above accusations that he exploits his power to help friends and family. Critics say Sarkozy is moving to install his 23-year-old son Jean as president of the authority overseeing the massive La Défense finance and business center west of Paris...
Okrent's article failed to mention the cause underlying Detroit's dwindling population: globalization. The fact is that the jobs that were once done by Detroit dwellers have long since been displaced to Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe due to lower labor costs. Marx would appreciate the irony that the once glamorous auto industry, which embodies the spirit of capitalism, unleashed the forces of globalization which eventually destroyed it. David Zarecky, PRAGUE...
...Wisconsin. "We're going to do this incrementally," says JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts' secretary of health and human services. "We want to increase pay-for-performance first and episode payments next." Is five years enough to make the transition entirely? Bigby concedes she doesn't know. "No one's ever done this," she admits...
Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons prefaced Canada’s talk by presenting him with a signed proclamation from the Cambridge City Council in recognition of his work, and called the Harlem Children’s Zone “an incredible representation of what can be done when you put all your energy into doing what it takes to educate children...
...clients were happy with the settlement and felt that they had done the right thing by pursuing this case, being active instead of passive in the face of attack,” David N. Rosen ’65, a professor at Yale Law School and one of the womens’ attorneys, wrote in an e-mailed statement to the Crimson...