Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following a short jumper by Penn sophomore guard Elisabeth Alexander, Egelhoff came down again, took a pass from freshman point guard Jen Monti and nailed a left-wing three that gave Harvard a lead it would not relinquish. But the Crimson was not done...
Then Beam, last game's hero and Harvard's deadliest three-point marksman, knocked down his second consecutive three-pointer one minute later, staking Harvard to a 16-14 lead it would not relinquish...
...declared, had brought stability to an archipelago that was less a nation than a factory for political chaos, full of secessionists, radical Muslims, communists and renegade soldiers fomenting catastrophe. But in a swirl of the very disorder he claimed to have dispelled, Suharto was forced last May to relinquish power to a trusted disciple, B.J. Habibie. Even that move could not stem the unrest, and after six months of political tension and economic hardship, chaos has returned to the world's fifth most populous country. Indonesia's woes have been a driving force behind Asia's financial crisis...
While on the court, he remained a presence atHLS, but the Law School enforces a "two-year rule"under which professors relinquish their chairsafter two years of leave. In order to return tohis original position, Fried must go through areinstatement process...
...good to evil, and this is perhaps the most problematic aspect of Apt Pupil. The key line in the movie perhaps comes when Dussander, at a dinner party and unflappably suave, says, "Speaking the truth is a privilege of young boys; it is one, however, that men must regrettably relinquish," raising his glass knowingly to the other men at the table. Lying, suggests Apt Pupil, is a sign of maturity, as is, it would seem, cruelty and slaughter...