Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Gowon agreed to a loose confederation of states for Nigeria, promised aid for 160 refugees and made other concessions that he later reneged on. Gowon later offered a compromise: he said he would give all state governors, including Ojukwu, virtual veto over his policies, but he refused to relinquish certain powers, including the power to take over states "in emergencies." When the deadline passed with no further concessions, Ojukwu hit where it hurt most: at Nigeria's treasury. He announced that all taxes formerly collected in his state by the central government in Lagos must henceforth be paid...
...that he sought out the Henhouse; that he is responsible for allowing it to become a prison; that when he visualized himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey has taken him from neurotic dependency and rebellion to a point where he can think...
...found that the thing that was most urgently required was a program of national reconcilation. You remember the second inaugural address of President Lincoln. The government of South Vietnam, and the governments, of North Vietnam are governments, and we do no task that the government of North Vietnam relinquish its role as a government. The basic concept we seek to advance is a very simple one. That is, that there be a grounding of arms so that bloodshed and violence shall cease; that there be an opportunity for all to participate in the democratic process that will bring a truly...
Olin Mathieson's management will remain very much in the hands of President and Chief Executive Gordon Grand Jr., 49. After the sudden death last October of Olin Chairman N. Harvey Collisson, Grand assumed that role in addition to his own duties, but will now be able to relinquish the chair. Since he took charge 22 months ago, Grand has pulled Olin Mathieson's disparate operations together into five groups, expanded its operations in 70 countries. At the time he assumed power, he forecast that the corporation would exceed $1 billion in annual sales by 1967; last week...