Word: jettison
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...Reagan's Rose Garden homily on the virtues of prayer in schools, the Justice Department advised the Senate that a pending bill to override the 1962 Supreme Court decision banning such prayer was probably unconstitutional. Presidential support for a prayer amendment will persuade the Senate leadership to jettison its pro-prayer bill, but will not necessarily give the New Right what it wants. Reason: there is virtually no chance that Congress will pass a school-prayer amendment this year...
...strongly counseling Israel to adhere to the Camp David accords--and specifically to its pledge to yield the Sinai--the United States was right on the mark. Should Israel renege on that treaty, it would jettison all hope of peace in the Middle East. That, for all who find Israel an inspiration and a hope for the future, would be tragic...
Such a gradual transition just might placate white fears, while educating Blacks to run the country along with the whites. It would not jettison firm ties with the West; it would bypass the polarization and strife that come with revolution...
...controversy. "Nancy is horrified," said one intimate. "It's a bad dream for her." Some staffers are especially nettled since Allen, unlike Stockman, is not considered central to the making of policy; they believe that, even if Allen is cleared, the incident gives them the chance to jettison him on grounds of bad judgment. Said one top official: "Allen presents an opportunity. David presents a problem...
...problem is, as Rousseau might have known, men of that caliber don't come along any too often, when they do, they rarely make the compromises necessary to reach adequately influential positions. Visionaries able to persuade without compelling, and convincing enough to sway millions to jettison their selfish tendencies are a vanishing breed (and never a big species in the first place...