Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marathon or, alternatively, to get control of enough U.S. Steel stock so that the steel company would have to give up part of Marathon. Such aggressive tactics have worked before. Dome Petroleum of Canada last spring bought about 25% of Conoco as a means of compelling that company to relinquish interest in a Canadian oil property that Dome wanted...
...River and East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians claim as their own. The Israelis have said that they would give up some of the land if they could be assured defensible borders, but they are adamant about retaining all of Jerusalem. The hard-line Palestinians claim that they would not relinquish a square inch to the Israelis. But there is room for discussion on this point...
...British North America (B.N.A.) Act. Over the decades, Britain has retained possession of the B.N.A. Act, primarily because Canadians have not been able to agree on how to amend the statute. Six weeks ago, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that the government had the right to ask Britain to relinquish the B.N.A. Act, with changes requested by Trudeau. It stressed, however, that Canada's unwritten tradition required "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
...provided some 27% of its imports, bought 17.5% of its exports and now handles fully 75% of its trade abroad. Mugabe, who broke diplomatic relations with the apartheid regime in September 1980, some five months after he assumed office, has strongly criticized South Africa for refusing to relinquish its hold on Namibia. In retaliation, South Africa has terminated its preferential trade agreement with Zimbabwe, withdrawn its loan of 24 locomotives and expelled thousands of Zimbabwean workers employed in South Africa. The loss of the locomotives was a particularly severe blow: Zimbabwe's transportation system, staggering under the weight...
...prerequisite for this reordering of political priorities is for Jordan, Harvard students, and other members of the Black bourgeosie to admit that they have indeed "made it." Unfortunately the Black bourgeoisie has been notoriously reluctant to relinquish its "oppressed" status. Witness, for example, the claims of being oppressed made by Blacks at Harvard...