Word: relinquish
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Each director is reluctant to relinquish space, which they consider a capital commodity of their academic departments, according to Carl A. Francis, associate curator of the Mineralogical Museum...
This time the team scored 10 unanswered points to pull ahead for good. A layup by Feaster, with 5:27 left, put the Crimson ahead, 57-56, and Harvard would not relinquish the lead...
Kerlow's own political sympathies intrude on her analysis occasionally, but her overarching theme holds. Harvard's conservative establishment had no reason to relinquish their power to opposition groups...
...negotiations stretch on, the key obstacle remains Syria's demand that Israel return the strategic Golan Heights captured in the 1967 war. Critics view the price as too high, and even those who support a peace accord are loath to relinquish the Golan. Who would feel safe in the U.S. capital if just across the Potomac River an enemy force occupied a 9,000-ft.-high plateau in northern Virginia...
...announced that it had moved a cache of more than half a ton of uranium -- enough to make three dozen nuclear bombs -- from Kazakhstan to the U.S. in a top-secret operation code-named Sapphire. Kazakhstan had previously agreed to relinquish the nuclear arsenal it inherited from the former Soviet Union, but it had also taken charge of several nuclear stockpiles. U.S. officials were concerned that the cash-starved former Soviet republic would be unable to safeguard the dangerous material. The nuclear stockpile will be stored at the Department of Energy's Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee...