Word: jettisoning
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...Whenever an experiment crowded an engineering exercise, he'd jettison the experiment. When a prime-time broadcast was scheduled for shortly before the crew was to execute a tricky rendezvous, he scrubbed the TV show. "No TV until after the rendezvous," he pronounced. The ground objected but Schirra held firm. "TV will be delayed without any further discussion...
...imposing "benchmarks" on the Iraq government. Those benchmarks in the vetoed bill covered everything from disarming militias to sharing oil revenues across ethnic groups. "If they come to us with that," says a senior G.O.P. congressional aide, "we'll take it." Republicans are also likely to insist that Democrats jettison some of the extraneous spending in the bill...
...Democrats have yet to decide precisely what they plan to do, considering they are well short of the votes they need to override the veto. It looks all but certain that they will have to jettison the bill's deadlines for troop withdrawal - a move that is certain to lose some of their more liberal members, but that could attract support from Republicans, who are facing increasing impatience for progress in Iraq from their voters at home. And while there is still some discussion of a "short leash" strategy - passing a small funding bill, and continuing to fight - that idea...
...Education credit—still ranks highest on or list of priorities. And we remain optimistic that whatever finally emerges from the Faculty legislation can and should include such measures.Perhaps the most practical and most prudent proposal for general education is in fact a simple distribution requirement. Let us jettison the passé “modes of inquiry” bequeathed to us by the Core, as well as the now-rendered-meaningless avant-garde “global” citizen General Education proposal. Instead, the Faculty should institute a few broad categories in which all general education...
...aides have nettled the President, yet his thinking has apparently shifted somewhat over the past week. He does not want to be pushed into abrupt firings or show signs of yielding to pressure. He answered with a testy no! to reporters who repeatedly asked him whether he planned to jettison Chief of Staff Donald Regan, and an aide insisted that the President had no plans to sack CIA Director William Casey. But it is now quite probable that both men will be departing from their posts within the next month...