Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examples of the past have a way of being misapplied to the present. Our experience in Southeast Asia does not teach us never to use force, but rather to employ it carefully. As Walter Mondale points out, "The lesson from Vietnam is not that we should forgo power everywhere at all times." But Gary Hart apparently wants to do just that. By unilaterally withdrawing American military might from Central America, he would foresake the chance for democratic change and endanger our own backyard. Hart's battle is long over: it does not belong in an area so close...
...Braniff was $1 billion in debt and snarled in a suicidal fare war with its archrival and fellow Dallas-based carrier, American Airlines. At one point Braniff asked its employees to forgo temporarily $8 million in pay to help meet other expenses. Then in May 1982, lacking cash for food, fuel and salaries, Braniff became the first U.S. trunk airline to file for bankruptcy. Its planes were flown to Dallas and stored, while its management searched for ways to bring Braniff back to life...
...American. C. Edward Acker, 54, once the risk-taking boss of Air Florida, was so convinced that he could turn around Pan American World Airways that he made a daring bet. If the airline failed to make money on its 1983 operations, Acker would forgo his chairman's salary of $475,000. Acker won his bet. Pan Am had a slim operating profit of $52.4 million last year, vs. a loss of $314.5 million in 1982. Predicts Acker: "We will continue to improve service by every means possible. We are going to move forward with even stronger results...
...perceived dangers of Western mores at a time of increased contacts between Chinese citizens and Westerners. Officials raged against the "rotten" ideology, which "crumbles our faith [and] messes our thinking." Zealous party censors combed school and university libraries for polluting material. In parts of China, authorities ordered women to forgo cosmetics or to cut their hair short. One young worker was castigated for owning an art book that included a print of Botticelli's Birth of Venus...
Early on, it was decided to forgo an emergency furnace, and some Massachusetts legislators question the wisdom of that decision. (A similar 20-story office in Toronto has taken the timid approach, with a steam-heat backup.) But Site Architect Spiros Pantazi brushes off all fears...