Word: foregoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science courses beyond the necessary minimum. As a result, say the authors, premeds interested in the humanities tend to forego courses in literature in order to study more chemistry...
...junior Year program is not packaged. Any student may be excused from the "hustling down to Tours" with authorization from the chairman of the French Department at the college or university. In other words, if Harvard's "well-prepared students" knew French well enough "in the first place" to forego this delightful period in a famed center of international education situated in the celebrated chateau district, they could secure permission...
...aiming to please our late show patrons," the management said. "The 1 a.m. closing hour should prove convenient to those people who otherwise would have to forego refreshments after the theatre...
...spoiled young dandy who liked to dance, dress well, and take full advantage of his middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. In the abortive 1905 revolution, Vishinsky was arrested along with a bunch of railroad strikers and did time in a Czarist prison...
...nations reduce conventional arms by fifty percent of "agreed norms." But in the past, during discussion of a U.N. police force, for example, the Kremlin has shown unusual ideas about the nature of fair "norms." Little value will come from the new proposal until the Soviets are willing to forego their dictionary of one-sided definitions. An even greater danger point is the weak system for checking the first stage of disarmament. The only control would be a temporary commission with the dubious power of requesting "the necessary information" concerning compliance with the reduction measures...