Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal effort is going to be in the area of getting costs down," he told the Washington Post last week. He would have the Pentagon forgo the $40 billion increase it wants next year, freezing the budget at its current level. He goes further than most Democrats have even considered suggesting. But the military, said Goldwater, "can live with it. They won't be happy. Neither will the Post Office be happy with the same money they got. Neither will my secretary be happy with the same money she got. But you can't keep pumping out money...
What kinds of specific offers might the U.S. make for openers? Shultz could agree to a slowdown in the deployment of cruise missiles or a moratorium on testing antisatellite devices. The hard-liners in Washington, unwilling to forgo the U.S. buildup in either area, would merely suggest that the Soviets send monitors to watch U.S. underground nuclear tests and that an American counterpart go to the U.S.S.R...
...party state is digging a grave for Zimbabwe and will lead to disaster," Nkomo said last month. Smith, whose Conservative Alliance holds seven of the 20 seats reserved for whites in the 100-seat House of Assembly, charged that one-party rule would "mean we are prepared to forgo our freedoms, the basic fundamental rights enshrined in the United Nations charter...
...superpowers hold pistols to each other's heads; they forgo large-scale defenses to make their suicide pact more credible, but they continue to proliferate and refine their offensive weapons. In so doing they put their arsenals on hair trigger; the danger grows that in a crisis or an accident, one or both fingers could twitch...
...order to campaign against the resolution, the well-known gnomes of Zurich were forced to forgo their normally reclusive ways. At endless town and village meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...