Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA last week decided to forgo a test firing of the new $30 million engine. Two other test firings, at $1.5 million each, have already taken place. But the space agency still must weigh new quality-control procedures. The crack that ultimately caused the leak was discovered during the engine's manufacture at Rockwell International's Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park, Calif. The crack was welded, but it was not considered necessary to take the additional step of hardening the weld (cost: about $200,000). Now the space agency faces extra bills totaling about $4 million...
...deploying Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe later this year. A strong peace movement on the Continent, supported by some U.S. advocates of a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, also opposes such deployment. In November 1981 Reagan proposed his "zero option," under which the U.S. would forgo this positioning of missiles that could strike the Soviet Union if the Kremlin would agree to dismantle all 350 of its SS-20 missiles, many of which are aimed at targets in Western Europe...
...aimed at Western Europe, from an estimated 250 to 162, the number that Britain and France now have in their independent nuclear arsenals. At that time, Reagan outspokenly stuck to the U.S. position at the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear weapons, a "zero option" under which NATO would forgo the planned deployment, starting at the end of this year, of 572 new Pershing II and cruise missiles if the Soviets dismantled all intermediate-range missiles...
Despite persistent U.S. protests, West Germany, France and other Western nations are committed to supplying financing and materials for the Soviet gas pipeline and have refused to retreat from this position. Why, ask the Europeans, should they forgo the profits from the $10 billion deal and deny themselves much needed Soviet gas when the U.S. refuses to revive a grain embargo that would hurt American farmers? Over the past five months, the U.S. has banned the sale of American energy technology to European companies that are supplying equipment for the pipeline. But that policy has caused an uproar in Europe...
...active American bishops. Among those objecting to the letter then was Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. While praising the document's recognition of the right to legitimate self-defense, Weinberger insisted that "safety requires an armory of arms." Defending the first-use doctrine, he wrote: "Were NATO to forgo the possibility of a nuclear response to armed aggression, the Warsaw Pact might conclude that the risks of conventional attack against Western Europe were acceptable." National Security Adviser William Clark also wrote a detailed response to the first draft. Said he: "To deter effectively, we must make it clear...