Word: forego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) has been standing for quite some time, although it is still not fully operational. The giant plant moved closer this year to providing the energy it was designed to produce when Gov. Edward J. King requested that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) forego investigation of MATEP's environmental impact, a process mandated by the Clean Air Act, because MATEP is technically a non-profit organization and therefore exempt from the review regulation. The EPA last month decided in favor of the exemption...
...guidelines we do ask our faculty and staff members, because of professional obligations and their voluntary relationship with other members of the academic community, to forego rights that they otherwise have as citizens (i.e. "the gathering of intelligence nd other covert activities on behalf of the CIA"). We made this request because we concluded that the practices in question are inconsistent with the nature of a university community and the obligations of a member of the academic profession. Covert recruiting by university personnel and its attendant practices bring a new and disturbing element into the relationships among members...
LAST FALL. President Bok and the other six members of the Corporation decided to forego participation in a fledgling company that would have involved Harvard Faculty members. University patents, and recombinant DNA. Bok said several uncertainties had deterred the Fellows from going ahead with what had seemed like a perfect solution for Harvard's financial woes. Citing potential problems with academic freedom, research incentive, and the University's integrity. Bok nonetheless stressed that the debate was far from closed saying. "It is possible that questions such as these can be answered satisfactorily and that the participation of Harvard...
University lawyers decided to forego lengthy legal challenges and agree to an election campaign when District 65 filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB...
...think the lesson to be learned from these examples is that the most precious thing the teaching fellow possesses is his independence. That's a commodity which is easy to forego. If he finds himself spending all his section time working problem sets step-for-step, he's become another button on the student's calculators. If he finds himself being asked to spend sections re-delivering the professor's last lecture, he has become a phonograph...