Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second-generation Duvalier flaunted an opulent life-style in the midst of incredible poverty. The President, who is fond of yachts and sports cars, did not forgo either pleasure when a critical shortage of foreign currency last year left the country almost without fuel. His most costly indulgence may have been his 1980 marriage to Michele Bennett, 34, a Haitian divorcee who once worked in New York City as a secretary. Their wedding was Haiti's social event of the decade. The price tag: $3 million. Fireworks alone cost...
...through "transfusions" of the most advanced ideas, discoveries and innovations from Soviet science to Soviet industry and agriculture, through more effective use of our own scientific and technological potential. That is the thrust of our plans and programs. At the same time, we would naturally not like to forgo those additional advantages that are provided by reciprocal scientific and technological cooperation with other countries, including...
...mind our emulating the Israelis. But America is not under enough of a threat for us to do that. We're not a small country with powerful enemies just over the border. So our capacity consistently to carry out pre-emption and retaliation is certainly not assured. Democracies forgo certain options by the nature of their societies and the whole set of ideals they represent...
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S announcement that during his trip to West Germany next month he will visit a German World War II cemetery and forgo a visit to the Dachau concentration camp was particularly outrageous coming as it did last week, the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. While Reagan's aides are reconsidering the president's widely-attacked travel plans, thousands of ceremonies nationwide will commemorate the end of the nightmare that exterminated, among others, 70 percent of European Jews, and one-third of the world's total Jewish population...
...Wars has been clouded by the infighting and whispering campaigns that have engulfed Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon since Gromyko and Schultz announced they would meet last September. Is it supposed to protect cities--or just missile silos? Is it a bargaining chip--or will the Administration agree to forgo the multi-billion project at the bargaining table...