Word: forgo
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Bonn was also under pressure from the Reagan Administration to extradite Hamadei to the U.S., where he faces a dozen separate charges related to the 1985 hijacking. Early in the week, the Justice Department reluctantly agreed to promise that it would forgo the death penalty for Hamadei, bowing to a provision in the U.S.-West German extradition treaty that prevents Bonn from turning over prisoners who face capital punishment. After first indicating that extradition would be arranged quickly, Bonn officials grew concerned that any such course would doom one or both of the new hostages. Turning Hamadei over...
...more inclined to buy an IBM type system, the HTPC sells them starting at a few hundred dollars more. However, for students willing to forgo the famous three initials, many bargains on IBM act-alikes (so-called clones) can be had around the Square and by mail-order. Both Club Computer and the Coop sell clones, and even better prices can be found through New York and California mail-order houses (check the back pages of computer magazines or talk to a member of the Harvard Computer Society for details...
...contrasting view is that the Soviets too think Gorbachev let Reagan get the better of him in Geneva, so that he is now under pressure not to meet again unless something tangible can be won. Some Soviet / officials have indeed begun to hint that they are prepared to forgo another meeting, not just this year and next but for the remainder of the Reagan presidency. Georgi Arbatov, a key adviser on American affairs, muttered darkly on a Soviet television program last week, "Soviet relations with the U.S. did not begin with Reagan, and they will not end with Reagan." That...
...statement did not say when the Soviets would resume underground nuclear tests, which are never announced here, but noted that "the Soviet state cannot forgo its own security and that of its allies" if Washington is testing...
...ruin was nothing new to Fisk: in October 1871, the place was down to $1 to its name; a year earlier, a teacher apologized for petitioning for back pay, saying it was a case of going barefoot through the cold months; a year before that, the faculty voted to forgo desserts to cut costs in the dining room. For better than a century, then, the place has always managed to claw itself through every penurious period. And so in the spring of 1984, when the prospect of real collapse looked near, those who love Fisk were beside themselves. The anguished...