Word: uprooting
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...about the size of the part. "It's easier to move back and forth between the theater and films in England," Fonda feels, "where everything is in one place. Here film and theater are separated by the width of the continent, and it's not easy to uproot children from school, mothers and wives from homes to live in a hotel. I've done a lot of theater because I want to. If I'm away from it for a while I miss the audience contact, and even more the joy of creating something from start...
...West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them - as a major obstacle to peace. Even the Israeli soldiers guarding the 60 men, women and small children of Shiloh from hostile Arabs oppose the settlement...
Although the discovery did uproot the belief that each gene was involved in the production of only a single protein, it is an infrequent enough phenomenon not to require any fundamental re-evaluation of current research, Meselson said...
Though the city will have to reduce its welfare budget, it cannot-and should not-solve the problem alone. Its dependent population was largely created by federal policies. By subsidizing mechanization on the farm, the U.S. Government helped uproot hundreds of thousands of poor Southern blacks, who flocked to Northern cities during the 1950s and 1960s. The city has also been forced to accept an unlimited migration from Puerto Rico; traditionally, New York has served as the port of entry for most immigrants to America. Yet that function has never been properly recognized or reimbursed...
...University plans to build the Kennedy Institute that the community is against. And because Massachusetts granted Harvard the rights to the land conditional that the complex or at least the library be built there also. Harvard stands to lose a valuable parcel if the Kennedy corporation decides to uproot the complex. It was only a little less than 20 years ago the former President Nathan M. Pusey '28 tried and failed to buy the land from Penn Central as a first choice for the site of Mather House...