Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing them with harp and guitar accompaniment (original music courtesy of Joe Griffiths...
Shimko should talk to Dick Heilman, 52, who went to work at Weirton Steel in 1948. Heilman would hate to forgo any of the perks, among them free dental care and double pay for overtime, let alone lose 32% of his $29,000 pipefitter's salary. But, he says, "it's different when you're working for yourself. The minute it was announced that we were going to buy the plant, I noticed people in my section working longer and taking shorter breaks. There's a lot we can do without...
...swing through the Middle East. A P.L.O. evacuation plan had been drawn up early last week by Colonel Johnny Abdo, head of Lebanese army intelligence, and Hani al Hassan, Arafat's political adviser. The P.L.O. was pleased with the Habib proposals, even though the Palestinians had to forgo the staged withdrawal they preferred by way of the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and thence to Syria...
...because Japanese firms benefited from relatively cheap bank loans (as low as 6% vs. about 16% in the U.S.) and government aid for research and development. Moreover, the Americans say, such large and diversified companies as Hitachi (1981 sales: $15 billion) and Nippon Electric ($5 billion) could afford to forgo profits on memory chips in order to undercut competitors. In the jargon of foreign trade, Japan has allegedly "dumped" chips in the U.S. market at a price lower than production costs...
...leave a deficit of at least $105 billion. Democrats are refusing to support any tax increase at all in an election year. Some had hoped to repeal the final the President's three-year program to reduce individual income taxes by 25%. But Reagan has stubbornly refused to forgo that slash and apparently has the support to keep it intact...