Word: jettison
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...says, he is guilty of war crimes, then so is Milosevic himself. The two fell out in mid-1993, says Seselj, when Milosevic realized that Seselj was turning into a serious political rival. The opportunistic Milosevic was transforming himself into a peacemaker and needed to jettison an obdurate backer...
...Bible that could not be explained rationally or by empirical observation. These postmodern yahoos, however, have gone way beyond that and have basically dismissed the entire book. Ignoring an enormous body of compelling and historically tested evidence to the contrary, these folks are fulfilling a misguided ethical obligation to jettison all that is essential to real Christianity. KARL NYQUIST Glasgow, Scotland Via E-mail...
...ordered proved ineffectual, Rabin decided that 1.7 million captive people could not be ruled by force, and he made the idea of a negotiated peace the theme of his 1992 campaign against Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. To achieve peace, he told the voters, Israel would have to jettison the siege mentality that had formed such a central part of its identity since the state's inception...
...after reaching abreakthrough agreementto resume peace negotiations with Syria, Israeli officials admitted they might jettison 28 years of tough talk and withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. "We must not allow the chance ofcomprehensive peace in the Middle Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister...
...Coop exist? To carry textbooks, offer posters in September, sell a few clothes, perhaps, and offer a good deal on CDs--if you get a frequent buyer's card and take advantage of student discounts. But outside of that, we can't really say. It's time to jettison those weak departments, even if they do fill up all the space in that huge building. Daniel Altman...