Word: forgo
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...there was nothing effete about Mueller, a decorated Marine, who handled cases ranging from the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the prosecution of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. He smashed through bureaucratic obstacles so enthusiastically that his deputy, Dave Margolis, warned him gently that if he didn't forgo a few battles, Washington would smash him. "I don't bruise easily," Mueller replied. The 56-year-old prosecutor is going to need his thick skin. Last week, when George W. Bush nominated him to succeed Louis Freeh as director of the FBI, Mueller prepared to take over an organization...
...That's just fine with Hanssen's beleaguered former employer, the FBI, which is happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...That's just fine with Hanssen's beleaguered former employer, the FBI, which is happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...created a host of new challenges for Takai and 109's other designers: how to keep a label's signature style intact without it suddenly seeming as last year as, well, platform boots. Often, brands like Esperanza, which now hype their high-heeled mules instead of the platforms, forgo association with a certain look so that they can morph with current styles. Others, like Alba Rosa and Me Jane, married their style to extreme looks of the past and paid the price: those loud colors and hibiscus flowers might be selling in Beijing and Taipei, but no one in Harajuku...
...First Nights” show a world of difference, and as far as prerequisite knowledge goes, in case the Core Committee has not yet noticed, several Foreign Cultures classes are conducted in a foreign language. In any case, students should be free to forgo these benefits in exchange for a course that is truly worthwhile, unlike the many watered-down Core classes that offer what the Core Committee believes to be a “manageable quantity of knowledge.” The persistence of the Core’s “one from Column A” mentality...