Word: jettison
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...Tower Report also recognizes that every administration has made significant blunders during four or eight years of complicated decision-making. The main failing of the Reagan administration was its inability to admit the mistake, immediately jettison all parties involved and show a clean plate to the American people...
South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung won about 45% of the vote for President in 1971, and ranks as a leading contender in elections to choose a successor to President Chun Doo Hwan, whose term expires in 1988. Last week Kim offered to jettison his longtime dream of occupying Seoul's Blue House, provided that the ruling Democratic Justice Party agreed to permit the direct election of the next President. Said Kim: "If I don't stand for the presidency in 1988, the government has no excuse to oppose direct elections...
Israel's defense minister, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Tel that Hussein's decision created a "historic opportunity" for Middle East peace. Rabin called on the 1.3 million Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories to jettison...
Cambridge city politics has in recent years been the scene of volatile contests between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and the conservative Independents, each of which now backs four of the nine councilors. With a guaranteed long term in office, some councilors fear that Healy may jettison the neutrality he has generally demonstrated towards partisan disputes...
...window through which the spectator sees "real people." Now it could show anything, in any and all fashions. Time could be stretched or collapsed, as in Jules et Jim; the narrative could be interrupted for capricious movie references, as in Shoot the Piano Player; the film could jettison the neat happy ending for a character frozen in indecision, as in The 400 Blows. With these first three features, Truffaut helped provide a new grammar for the international cinema vocabulary...