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Many Kyushu daimyo adopted Christianity as a means of winning favor with the Portuguese traders, without necessarily abandoning their Buddhist beliefs or Shinto practices.
Parents are abandoning the PTA in droves for groups that are more local and hard-hitting, says a report . The PTA's reformist mandate--it pioneered libraries, hot lunches, and kindergartens--has degenerated into mere boosterism.
Judging Amy , a CBS drama premiering tonight at 10 p.m., imitates NBC's Providence , which returns for another season on Friday at 8 p.m., and Providence incarnates a new kind of show second in hotness only to those aimed at teen-agers: the series meant to keep high-spending grown-up women from abandoning network television.
Not that the language has ever been highly logical or ever should be, but what set out on a bon voyage is gradually abandoning ship and heading back to shore.
"The leader of the nonproliferation effort over the last 50 years, the United States of America, is not abandoning its leadership," said Sen.