Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things were back to normal in the nightcap. Martelli again stepped into the batter's box with one out and the bases full of teammates. The senior catcher singled in leadoff man Bruce Weller to give Harvard the lead it would never relinquish. The next inning it was Captain Bauer performing the honors, singling in Weller. Farrell followed with an RBI hit of its own and the Crimson lead...
There will be no negotiations over the Falklands in the near future--for the British, that would be a travesty of the lives lost in conquest--but England will eventually relinquish the islands as surely as it now controls them. The conviction that the Falklands are Argentinian is not just the province of a fascist dictatorship, but the heartfelt belief of all of Argentina's citizens and the concern of past and future democratic governments. When the economic burden of holding the islands becomes too great for the British, the process of negotiation that should have been taking place...
...science and technology departments. Gardner will also have to handle pressure to increase the proportion of women on the faculty (currently 11.6%) and minorities in the student body (5.6%). He will have to decide whether to side with liberals on the faculty and in the student body and relinquish university control of the Los Alamos and Livermore atomic-weapons laboratories...
...invention is impressive, but there is little indication of the Henson-Oz trademark: a sense of giddy fun. Audiences nourished on the sophisticated child's play of the Sesame Street Muppets and the music-hall camaraderie of The Muppet Show may not be ready to relinquish pleasure for awe as they enter The Dark Crystal's palatial cavern. And they may not be alone. Miss Piggy would take one look at the place and order pink satin drapes. -By Richard Corliss
...gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...