Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next 115 seconds, Harvard scored twice more to add to a lead it would never relinquish...
...whether students would be willing to relinquish three-day weekends or start school earlier in order to lengthen Thanksgiving vacation, winter break or reading period...
...President with a conservative legislature cohabitation, or, loosely, "living together." For all its colorful connotations, the term fails to answer certain fundamental questions. How much power, for example, would a conservative Premier have in foreign affairs, a field traditionally dominated by the French President? Would Mitterrand be compelled to relinquish any of his key powers, which include the right to dissolve parliament and the overseeing of national defense? Warns Jean Boissonnat, editor of the biweekly business magazine L'Expansion: "Unlike past elections, each of which brought a particular debate to a close, this one is going to open...
...Administration's opponents argue that aiding the contras would make it more rather than less likely that the U.S. might become further involved militarily. Even with increased aid, the hard-pressed contras cannot possibly force the Sandinistas to relinquish their tight hold on the country (see box). The more the U.S. becomes committed to the goal of changing the fundamental nature of the Sandinista regime, the more likely it is that American forces will seem necessary...
What may happen when Warren must relinquish the honor is already a vexing question. The prospect of regular spats over who will be the next laureate does not seem terribly poetic. Fairly soon the U.S. will have accumulated more laureates than the 18 that England has amassed in almost 300 years. In a calendar sent to friends and constituents, Matsunaga has written, "If the lessons of human experience were all written in verse, we might better learn and remember them." One metrical piece of advice: "Abandon what's foreign/ After Penn Warren...