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...rates were changed to personal rates, scaled according to number of accidents and amount of damages, it would shift the high costs from the careful drivers to the reckless. If policies for frequent offenders were expensive enough, insurance companies could cover their damage costs and even allow drivers to forego insurance until after their first or second accident...
...Where do we go from here?" asked Eisenhower. Then he made the campaign's most dramatic pledge: if elected, he will take a "simple, firm resolution: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war . . . honorably...
Leaders of the group decided to forego the plan "in view of the changed political situation." Less than a third of the $3,000 necessary to run the advertisement in the Boston Globe had been raised...
Twitchell, who had to forego his hurdle specialties due to an injured foot, broke the Harvard and Brown stadium track records with his 21 second clocking, but both records were discounted because of a favoring wind. Dow, winner of the 100 in the good time of 9.9, was only a foot behind Twitchell at the 220 finish...
Perhaps the Deans believe that the aid a faculty member or an alumnus can give student groups is too valuable to forego. In that case, after the organization and the Deans' Office have tried but failed to get an adviser, the Dean's Office should assume that function itself. There are those who might argue that Deans as advisers would be an unhealthy influence, depriving student groups of a portion of their independence. But as long as the rule does not require organizations to accept or even solicit advice, this objection is illusory. If the Deans' Office feels as strongly...