Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants it. But the White House meeting with labor leaders on future wage-price stabilization-which will be followed this week by similar meetings with congressional leaders, businessmen and farm officials-ended on a mildly truculent note. Most of the union officials warned that they would not forgo strikes. They would accept the creation of a stabilization board representing labor, business and the public, but not, as Nixon wants, Government...
...Gulf coasts, except for some Maine ports, only Delaware Bay has deep enough water to handle the world's growing fleets of supertankers and giant cargo ships. But in a recent letter to a complaining industrialist, Peterson bluntly suggested that there was a somewhat less economic alternative: "Forgo the use of large vessels and continue to use smaller vessels...
Wealthy Woman. The Queen did not propose how much the increase should be, but she did offer to forgo her $144,000 Privy Purse in exchange for help on other royal expenses. The matter was discreetly referred to a 17-member Select Committee in the House of Commons. The Crossman article raised the question of just how rich the Queen of England is. Though Crossman "conservatively estimated" her fortune at $120 million, no one really knows, and many place it much higher. Surely she is the wealthiest woman in Britain, and in all likelihood one of the half-dozen wealthiest...
...repairing the bad genes, it can increasingly determine that they are present. Genetic counselors can thus advise prospective parents on the possibilities that their offspring will be born with genetic diseases. Properly informed, a couple that runs a high risk of producing a defective child may well decide to forgo having children...
...think it would be both admirable and wise for Dean Bok and the University as a whole to forgo any such ceremonies this year. Dean Bok has already announced that the University faces a grave crisis in funding. Student aid programs, so often, are the first to be cut. What sense, then, could there be to a lavish, extravagant show of grandeur that Harvard can ill afford...