Word: abandoning
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Quayle makes much of the theme of the absent father; America under the Bush Administration looks like a house with an absent father. A man has no right to abandon the family for years and then show up one day and go upstairs and start spanking the kids...
...call-in polls are about as representative as trying to gauge the mood of the country by listening to talk radio. As James Fishkin, chairman of the government department at the University of Texas, argues, "Electronic town meetings are just a device to step outside established political mechanisms -- to abandon traditional forms of representation and elections -- in order to acquire a mantle of higher legitimacy. And in the very worst case, it could be invoked toward extraconstitutional ends...
...January 1994, federal laws will force theUniversity to abandon a mandatory facultyretirement age. Currently, Harvard professors mustretire...
...wanted to write (he has published an autobiography and two volumes of fiction). But none of these reasons has dislodged the conviction, still held by many fans, critics and fellow musicians, that a gift like Shaw's is something you just don't abandon...
...Parker's credit, she didn't abandon her new game. And once she returned to Cambridge, she began to reap the benefits of her patience...