In a city that long ago relinquished so much of its mythology to the rapture of upper-income parenting and its attendant diet of chemical-free everything, it was a matter as sure as the rise of transit fares that we would eventually be made to think about the rituals of morning drop-off and afternoon pickup as the predominant context for forbidden sex.
When there is a history of one party surrendering power while their partner has steadfastly sought to build and wield power, it is unreasonable and even unethical of the mediator to essentially ask the partner that has already relinquished so much to do more.
But selling out to another company would have meant relinquishing what he has enjoyed so much about making the game: creative control.
Some officials say the paradox of giving principals more control while imposing greater oversight reflects continuing tension within the Klein administration between a desire to empower principals and an unwillingness to relinquish control at a time when so much is at stake.
They are the problems of empire and the need to relinquish an addiction to oil and so much more -- an addiction to the exploitation of the labor and resources of other countries.
But in the end they had to relinquish the tower, where they had had so much success since they bought it in 2003 for $1.4 billion.
In an interview with The New York Times in 1970, she described the forces that led her first to take the veil and later to relinquish it: "I entered the convent not so much because I believed in the church as that I believed in helping people," she said.
Seldom in history has a postrevolutionary leader amassed so much personal power only to relinquish it swiftly.
But he turned 91 last month, and his physical health has declined so much that he had to relinquish his cherished chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee.
In fact, they trust Washington so much that they're willing to relinquish much of their own oversight of coal mine safety to the feds.
