• Rabenmutter is what Germans call working mothers who abandon their kids to care givers while they work.

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  • Mothers who abandon their children tend to be judged far more harshly by society, and by their children, than fathers who do the same -- though not because of outcome.

    CNN: Why there are more walk-away moms

  • There is a man making a living as a female dancer, who decides to abandon tweezers and asks Mr Mehta to teach him to shave.

    ECONOMIST: India

  • Bromance can now be applied without shame to literary studies of other male pairings, even to those men who do not abandon civilization for the wilderness.

    FORBES: Bromance and the American Novel

  • There are folks in Washington right now who think we should abandon our efforts to support clean energy.

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  • "I had lost 25 pounds due to diarrhea, " says patient Steven Gendin, who eventually had to abandon his seven-drug regimen.

    CNN: 'Kitchen sink' therapy last resort for some HIV patients

  • One concern is whether London's transport system will be able to cope with 20, 000 people who are expected to abandon their cars each day and opt for public transport.

    ECONOMIST: London's roads

  • General Musharraf has just won the Pakistani Parliament's agreement to let him keep the sweeping powers he has granted himself but, as the assassination attempts show, he is not in such a strong position to negotiate a compromise over Kashmir: he is hemmed in not just by Islamist hardliners but also by the armed forces, who are reluctant to abandon their support for Kashmiri separatists.

    ECONOMIST: Back to playing cricket

  • Facebook is in a tough spot here: do they abandon the CFO who steered them to the public markets?

    FORBES: Facebook Sets Another New Low; NYT Rips CFO Ebersman

  • Food and shelter have also been promised by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, who say they will not abandon fellow Muslims.

    BBC: Race to deliver Afghan aid

  • Former army chief Gen Sir Mike Jackson has appealed to the government to not abandon Afghan interpreters who have helped the British army.

    BBC: Former army chief in Afghan interpreters asylum appeal

  • There was massive dissatisfaction among new users who had been forced to abandon the legacy networks they were accustomed to, and Electronic Data Systems made some major missteps in implementing the new system.

    FORBES: Navy Spending Billions To Make Its Networks Less Secure

  • It completes a miserable 2012 for Schleck, who has been forced to abandon preparatory stage races such as Paris-Nice, the Tour of Catalunya and the Dauphine through a mixture of injury and illness.

    CNN: 2010 champion Andy Schleck out of this year's Tour de France

  • "One needs to constantly remind oneself to play with the abandon of the child who is just learning the cello, " Mr. Ma says.

    WSJ: Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative

  • Moreover, if the investors who have fled Asia and Russia abandon Latin America, too, then the West will really be in trouble: Mexico, for example, is California's biggest market after Japan.

    ECONOMIST: The West: Shudders from Asia | The

  • For many who have who always celebrated holidays with warmth and abandon, there's a raw and tender spot where a departed family member used to be.

    CNN: A depressive's guide to Christmas

  • "He has to win someplace or his campaign will die, " said Berendt, who urged Bradley in a letter to abandon his "negative personal attacks" against Gore.

    CNN: Gore campaign bites back

  • One of his first employees was Douglas Ginsburg, who later in life would have to abandon his nomination by President Reagan to the Supreme Court because he had smoked pot.

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  • Mr Umunna suggested the decision to appoint Prof Ebdon had been a "trade off" by Mr Cable in return for rumoured plans to abandon penalties for university students who pay off their tuition fees early.

    BBC: Cable defends Ebdon appointment

  • Although President Bush personally challenged this assumption - as did, to varying degrees, members of his senior team, the election ultimately was defined, and its outcome determined, by those who believed the United States could safely abandon the Iraqi people.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Tragedy of errors

  • Those who had worried that America was preparing to abandon them instead saw tens of thousands of American forces flowing into their country.

    NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address

  • Add a couple of more expensive options to the lineup, and traditional Wal-Mart shoppers who aspire to something more won't abandon the store once they get there.

    FORBES: Wal-Mart Goes Upscale

  • To abandon them is to abandon an essence of what makes us who we are.

    BBC: Jake Price returns to Japan

  • Those who settled in the Nile Valley were forced to abandon nomadic pastoralism for lack of summer rains.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • "I am not one of those who believe we should moderate, equivocate or otherwise abandon our principles, " Jindal said.

    CNN: Jindal, courage is not enough

  • Verizon was able to mock the quality of the ATT experience for its users until it too got the phones and started to limit usage, especially for the bandwidth pigs who were streaming video and playing online games with abandon.

    FORBES: How Long Can Apple Remain King Of Mobile Devices?

  • But they are also a reflection of the hard graft of public-health workers in many countries, who have persuaded millions of people to modify or abandon risky behaviour, such as having unprotected sex, as they have also created the medical infrastructure needed to distribute anti-retroviral drugs that can keep symptoms at bay in those who do become infected.

    ECONOMIST: AIDS

  • But both she and her sister, who trained in London in physical education, had to abandon any future career to help run the family home after the death of their mother.

    BBC: Guinness World Record holder Marjorie Ruddle, 105, dies

  • But if instead it confirms the fears of those who warned that governments would use any ECB intervention to abandon essential structural reforms, then this period of calm may not last too long.

    WSJ: In Place of Austerity: What Comes Next?

  • And so long as there are those who long for a better future, we will never abandon our pursuit of a just and lasting peace that ends this conflict with two states living side by side in peace and security.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at 2011 AIPAC Policy Conference

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