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Ironically, the goal, while giving Princeton a comfortable 2-0 lead, served to transfer the "Big Mo" to Harvard. From there on out, the Crimson cast aside its inhibitions and went after Princeton with reckless abandon...
British Coal argues that it was forced into the cuts because its best customers, the electric-power companies, decided to abandon coal furnaces and convert to gas-operated generators. The electric utilities claim that gas will be cheaper and more environmentally friendly than coal...
...planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...
...sell 150 F-16 fighter jets to Taiwan. This shattered a 1982 Sino-American agreement in which the U.S. promised to reduce arms sales to Taiwan gradually and not exceed the level being supplied at the time. By disregarding this agreement, Bush has given China a reason to abandon its pledge to stick to weapons treaties...
...Keynesian liberals did for decades before -- that the business cycle has been abolished. If not, the calendar is against you: we cannot wait until full recovery from the current recession to begin serious deficit reduction and hope to have it completed before the next recession becomes an excuse to abandon the exercise...