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The military is (theoretically) a nonpolitical institution, but as soon as the operation went south, the military abandoned its nonpolitical façade to protect itself.
The spot then moves to the present--and the problem: a shot of an abandoned lot with the St. Louis Arch in the background and a chyron proclaiming, "Our city cries out for a leader."
The Enquirer suggests that "lonely" Joan was forced to make the call because she's been "abandoned" by her ex-husband.
Additionally, in a city with "acres of abandoned and decrepit housing," local officials failed to spend millions in federal block grant money intended to rehabilitate housing for the poor.
The immense monument — it would have been the largest in Egypt had it been completed — fractured along a fault line and was abandoned in 1500 b.c.