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Jettison

To throw property overboard from a ship, especially in an emergency. Under maritime law, property that has been jettisoned (called jetsam) becomes the property of whoever finds it.

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Specifically, the collective has eight switches with the radio transmit and emergency jettison next to each other.

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If teachers would like to enjoy similar self-policing, argues Denis Doyle, they will need to jettison the tactics of industrial-style unionism in favor of organizations more like the medieval guilds.

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After stating that Baptists began as dissenting communions whose biblicism caused them to jettison ideas they considered unbiblical, he said, "Yet their concern for conscience, their emphasis on individual conversion, their mistrust of 'hierarchies,' and the centrality of their congregational polity made Baptists a People's Movement in which division was imminently possible." (422) The Baptist Ways, the great diversity in Baptist life, came from the illuminated center of a handful of Baptist principles.

Baptist Ways: a History

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