Word: relinquish
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...give strong backing to the Arabs. But by their unwillingness to encourage and finance another round of war with Israel, the Soviets have forced both Arabs and Israelis to consider the rough outline of a possible settlement. If negotiations proceed successfully, the most plausible scenario is that Israel will relinquish the bulk of the territories it conquered in the Six-Day War in return for ironclad guarantees that the Arab states will accept Israel's existence. From such an agreement, a number of benefits might ultimately flow: the reopening of the Suez Canal, a solution to the problem...
...rate of inflation of delusions about inflation exceeds the current rate of inflation. We simply say this: First, at this time of intolerable interest rates, business contraction, layoffs and cost-cutting of all varieties by employers large and small, it would represent the consummate foolishness to relinquish now traditional liberties associated with collective-bargaining and trade-unionism, by either organized or organizing working people. Next, every control measure (even partial ones) recommended in the months ahead, especially likely after the November elections, should be submitted to the following kind of test, using the New York Lindsay administration for illustration...
...from the ashes of both World Wars. Then, three years ago, a policy of borrowing short and lending long brought the mighty family empire to the brink of insolvency. In return for government guarantees of bank credit, Alfried Krupp, heir to the Krupp power and fortune, grudgingly agreed to relinquish his one-man rule. A public foundation headed by leading government and business officials was established to administer the family stock. Alfried, the last of his line, died soon after...
...responsibility to the family name will not let him be anything else. He started at the top and stayed there, but doing so took an iron spirit. At 27, two years after the death of his father Edsel, he led a family coup that forced his aged grandfather to relinquish leadership of what was a sorely troubled company. Then Ford wrested real control from Director Harry Bennett and his crew of hired thugs in a series of tense confrontations, during which he was in some physical danger. For a while he felt it necessary to carry...
...system apathetic and manipulated, rather than, 'of, by, and for the people.'" Tom Hayden discouraged anyone from insisting that this nation, too large to be a true democracy, must rely on representative democracy when he pointed out. "The 'order of the country is based on people being taught to relinquish the right to order their own lives...