This action by the FASB was "a complete abdication of responsibility, " Carmichael says.

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That indecision came in for some criticism: it was seen in some quarters as an abdication of responsibility for the economic guidance which many people expect from the Fed.

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But it is not clear it would pass muster with the House Republicans, who view it (rightly) as a blatant abdication of responsibility that does not stipulate any deficit reduction at all.

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Yet neither liberty nor opposition to censorship vindicates the abdication of social responsibility.

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There is also the possibility of intervention by the Indonesian government, which is quick to take miners to task over perceived abdication of social responsibility.

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When we understood that the only options the USDA was open to embracing both included the planting of GMO alfalfa, we knew we had a responsibility to advocate for the most restrictive sets of regulations possible, and to have taken any other route at that juncture would have been a clear abdication of our responsibility to the our organic farmers and consumers.

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