Word: relinquishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industrial ministries, forced to fulfill their five-year plans, have been slow to relinquish their power. Employees at the giant Uralmash machine works in the town of Sverdlovsk won a victory last year when they successfully protested a state plan on grounds that it called for more heavy machinery than customers needed. But after the workers made their point, Moscow bureaucrats simply sent the orders to a more compliant factory. Said a fed-up manager of another plant at last June's Communist Party Conference: "It's hopeless to fight paperwork. You have to kill off the authors...
...West Bank, may not have behaved with their customary prudence and respect for human rights. But to hold the Israeli army completely responsible for Palestinian disenfranchisement does an enormous disservice not only to the Israelis, but to the Palestinians, who stand little chance of international support if Israel does relinquish control...
...underclassman Danny Rossi, a musical genius, why he had been assigned to Eliot, which Rossi considers full of "smug preppies." Finley says, "I wanted you very badly, Daniel. I had to trade the master of Adams two football stalwarts and a published poet just to get him to relinquish...
...crawled ahead at the free-throw line. Spolyar made one of two shots to tie the score, 59-59, with seven minutes left in the game. A minute later, she was fouled again and hit both shots to give Yale a 61-59 lead, which the Elis would never relinquish...
...that fails, you might try holding your own lottery-in-exile, say in Paris. With the entire freshman class spending the year abroad, the administration will be forced to relinquish control of the system...