According to reports, Hanson called for a decrease in immigration and also that multiculturalism should be abandoned, a call to the old White Australia.

CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

About 100, 000 letters were mailed to shareholders, warning them that their shares were in jeopardy of being classified as abandoned, and asking them to call specified phone numbers, visit company websites or mail back the letters to prevent their stocks from being turned over to the state.

WSJ: State Governments Eye 'Inactive' Broker Accounts

Those, such as Mr Woodhead, who call for Plowden-era orthodoxies to be abandoned, are not short of critics.

ECONOMIST: Plowden��s progress

Two-thirds of them are said to be from the Gamaat Islamiya, suggesting that the state has abandoned the relative leniency showed in response to the group's ceasefire call.

ECONOMIST: Arab dissent

The idea of letting higher courts call in and extinguish cases, plus another proposal now apparently abandoned to require lower courts by law to follow the precedents set by more senior ones had faced stiff opposition from lawyers as well as judges.

ECONOMIST: The price of justice | The

It's a 61-acre abandoned rail yard just west of the cluster of kitschy casinos and low-rent office buildings that natives call "downtown, " usually with a regretful sigh.

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