Word: relinquishing
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...discussion about the West Bank today should start with an absolute--Israel cannot completely relinquish control of the area in the forseeable future. Indeed, it is unfortunate and even a little surprising that before '67 most of the concerned nations did not recognize Israel's right to have a military and security influence over the territory. The section of Israel between the pre- 1967 boundaries and the Mediterranean is only eight to 13 miles wide, and contains 67 percent of the country's population and 80 percent of its industry. The strategic vulnerability of this heartland until...
Rosa Parks is the 70-year-old Alabama woman, whose refusal to relinquish her sent to a white man on a Montgomery has resulted in the 1956 boycott led by civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King...
...dispute should not be presented inaccurately by any newspaper, school daily or otherwise. The next time Williams or any Crimson editor writes a story that mentions the Namibia dispute they should first research the facts. The Western countries have, then far, failed to convince South Africa to relinquish its control over Namibia is due, in part, to misconceptions about the Namibia dispute among leaders in the West. Let's not contribute to the confusion in the future. Ari Fitzgerald...
With the war Hirohito lost all but symbolic power. Installed as Crown Prince in 1916 and enthroned as Emperor ten years later, he was pressed by General Douglas MacArthur to relinquish his claims to divinity in 1946. Under the 1947 constitution the Emperor was identified as nothing more than "the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." Commoners were no longer forbidden to speak his name or look at his face; 90% of his wealth, estimated at $250 million, was confiscated. Characteristically, the bespectacled monarch absorbed such indignities without comment, let alone complaint. Taking cheerfully...
Though humans are understandably loath to relinquish their monopoly on intelligence, observers have long believed that a good case can be made for the animal mind. At a weekend symposium at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., a group of scientists put their brains together to decide whether or not animals think. Their conclusion: an unequivocal maybe...