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...happens, in the 17 Quincy St. home of past presidents. "I'm very happy where I am." Rosovsky says. "I didn't really want to get used to a certain lifestyle and then hang on to that lifestyle just because I was used to it." Rosovsky's decision to forego a University home, like Bok's self-imposed salary freeze before it, was occasioned largely by budgetary factors: "I really did not want to do anything that would appear luxurious." Moreover, for Rosovsky's personal finances, giving up his house only to have to purchase another one a decade...
Four days before the election, Chicago's major Krugerrand seller, the First National Bank of Chicago "just caved in," says Norman Watkins, a worker at the Chicago branch of CALC. Weighing financial balances, the bank decided to forego its commission on the nearly $10 million in Krugerrands that it handled each year. "There is now no major bank in downtown Chicago that sells or handles Krugerrands," Watkins says...
...whether seniority plans are exempt from remedial affirmative action, is by no means a glaring case of unwarranted reverse discrimination. All race-conscious hiring plans seem destined to create some backlash for white workers, and courts have repeatedly asserted that it is not unreasonable to ask whites to forego advantage they enjoy because of prior discrimination...
Ostensibly designed for the protection of minors, in reality these bills have been served up by the New Right in part to deter abortion. The sad irony is that, in inducing many teenagers to forego contraception, they might well increase the number of abortions--and particularly the number of dangerous and even fatal ones--performed by quacks...
Cutesier shoppers can sift through a panoply of more specialized cookbooks. Aspiring chefs are invited to cook with Paul Bocuse, Craig Claiborne and Jacques Pepin. Somewhat less continental are the offerings in Richard Simmons' Never Say Diet Cookbook--Simmons urges eaters to forego roast beef and plum pudding for the delights of cheese-less cheesecake. His recipe for "Chilly Cottage Cheese Mold" might lead one to conclude that health fanatics don't really live longer--it just feels that way. Most intriguing is The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a creative veggie cookbook...