Word: abandoning
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...worry. Felix is a born producer. That is to say, an improviser. A little recutting, a little reshooting, and he can save Night Wind. All it requires is fending off the studio sharks, stealing a few million from his wife and persuading her to abandon her Julie Andrews-like image with a nude-to-the-waist turn in the X-rated redo. This the real-life Andrews manages with aplomb and utterly winning self-humor. If they gave a good-sport Oscar, she would be a shoo...
...collect compensation from the Israelis. When Haig received a copy of the draft in Peking, according to the aides, he scribbled a note to Kirkpatrick telling her that the U.S. could not vote for such a resolution. The aides contended that she succeeded only in persuading the Iraqis to abandon the call for sanctions...
...Beginism" and "fascism," a word with particularly bitter connotations in Israel. Said Peres: "He wants to set up a regime that will have us all afraid." After Labor began running campaign films of the violence, spliced with Begin's inflammatory rhetoric, the Prime Minister asked his supporters to abandon such disruptive tactics at political rallies...
...Soviet Communists and the entire Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party's 26th Congress: "We shall not let socialist Poland be harmed, and we shall not abandon a fraternal country in distress...
...their foreign counterparts. Compare the behavior of Chrysler and Mazda when they both faced economic extinction. Chrysler fired thousands of workers; Mazda went to great lengths to keep employees with the company. If firms fire workers when it is economically convenient, no one should be surprised when American workers abandon their firms when it is economically convenient...