Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese, reveals that in China there is no cheating in commerce, no cheese, no tipping, and "absolutely no night life"-and very few flies, either. The trains run on time, and Chinese guests, one should be forewarned, usually arrive a few minutes early. The visitor should not seek to discard anything of even residual value in China; it is bound to pursue him until the Chinese can return...
...Your Essay was a splendid contribution toward a solution of the problem of compensating automobile-accident victims [Jan. 26]. Only lawyers with a vested interest in automobile-accident litigation fail to discard the "central myth" that auto accidents can be avoided and that recovery must be founded on fault. The lethal nature of motor vehicles and the sheer weight of their numbers render accidents inevitable, divesting them of purely private concern-the subject of litigation predicated on negligence...
...everything goes the rule, whether it is castles from the Rhine or old British ocean liners. A case in point is Mrs. Florence Barry, 57, owner of a Manhattan thrift shop called Encore. No sooner did she read in the newspaper that the Paris police force was about to discard its famed capes for raglan-sleeved overcoats than she decided that police capes were just the thing for her customers...
...society afford to discard the tissues and organs of the hopelessly unconscious patient when they could be used to restore the otherwise hopelessly ill but salvageable individual...
Coleman, however, had other ideas. A professor of social Relations at Johns Hopkins, his size, soft voice, and boxer's nose suggest the aging athlete more than the reformer academic. But his first step was to discard the primary assumption of all past discrimination studies -- that equal educational opportunity consists of the quantity of the things you put into a school: curricula, classrooms, facilities. According to Coleman, this standard lets schools off too easily. It implies that the burden of learning falls on the child, while society's responsibility ends with getting students to schools and spending equal amounts...