Word: relinquish
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...promised to banish the weapons entirely, Ukraine has been wavering on its commitment. A growing number of its leaders regard their atomic arsenal as a bargaining chip to trade for Western aid and security guarantees -- and increasingly as a safeguard against possible Russian aggression that they are loath to relinquish...
...there's more to campus activism than election campaigns, and after Bill Clinton's November triumph, the College Democrats seemed to relinquish their active role. "People deal with campus issues through other groups. Campus issues don't really have a relation to the Democratic Party," Strong explains...
...assume the child-care and household duties on the days they are at home. "In the beginning, when I first found myself with a six-month-old baby, it was frightening," Paul says. But he also argues that his apprenticeship was possible only because his wife was willing to relinquish her power in the . home. "It's something a man really can't do when a wife is at home," he says. "You have to be thrown into the deep...
...will a ninth-grade dropout who plainly relishes the glare of world publicity relinquish it all to lead his followers into prison? "Koresh is blowing smoke," says Wayman Mullins, a criminal-justice professor and hostage-negotiations trainer at Southwest Texas State University. "It's notoriety and grandstanding...
...father of American finance had his face plastered all over the cover of Tuesday's New York Post, the newspaper he founded in 1801 -- with a huge tear dripping down his cheek. The tear had been planted there by mutinous editors at the famously sleazy tabloid who refused to relinquish control to real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld, the latest multimillionaire to attempt to take over the paper. In 20 pages of nonstop abuse, Post staffers described Hirschfeld as a "nut," a racist, a deplorable landlord, a hostage taker, a sociopath and an anti-Semite -- a daring allegation, given that Hirschfeld...