Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human emotions and abilities. Gradually, the robot seeks to become more and more human, raising profound questions not only about the morality of creating intelligent machines but about broader issues like humanity and immortality. In adapting this tale for mainstream moviegoers, however, screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and director Chris Columbus forgo the subtleties of these dilemmas in favor of greeting-card sentimentality. The result is an enjoyable, often touching picture, but one that fails to realize the richness of its concept...
Joyner and Smiley's crusade started more than a year ago when Smiley delivered a blistering commentary about a memo from the Katz Radio Group, a New York City-based ad-sales firm, advising clients to forgo buying spots on minority-oriented radio stations because "advertisers should want prospects, not suspects." Within days, Joyner's fans had heaped so much protest on Katz that its president came on the show and promised to double its billings for black radio stations. Next, Joyner and Smiley compiled a list of companies that get millions of dollars from black customers and started pressuring...
...bringing a new drug to market can be time-consuming (up to 15 years) and costly ($500 million), Nichols was undaunted. In 1989 he started his own pharmaceutical company, Cell Pathways, with Dr. Rifat Pamukcu--the lone physician at the University of Chicago who had supported his decision to forgo surgery--as chief scientific officer. At first, Nichols used his own money, then he turned to friends, and finally he sold off shares to venture capitalists, eventually raising $81.5 million but leaving him with only an insignificant interest in Cell Pathways. Getting rich was never his goal...
Other schools like MIT, Boston University and Yale are ahead of Harvard in adopting roaming ethernet. According to Jim Stone, director of Boston University's consulting services, several years ago his school made the decision to forgo ethernet technology that required registration at a particular jack. Instead, all students use roaming ethernet...
...generator. The company has hiked annual fees in the program 60%, to $40. If you want to link your personal card with your corporate card, that's another $10, please. And if you're late with your card payment, you pay a fee of around $15 and forgo your points for that month--unless you ransom them for another $15. Like many issuers, Amex has added a mandatory-arbitration clause, so customers can't take their disputes to court. At least shareholders are happy. American Express earned a record $2.1 billion last year, and its stock shot...