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Wealthy Woman. The Queen did not propose how much the increase should be, but she did offer to forgo her $144,000 Privy Purse in exchange for help on other royal expenses. The matter was discreetly referred to a 17-member Select Committee in the House of Commons. The Crossman article raised the question of just how rich the Queen of England is. Though Crossman "conservatively estimated" her fortune at $120 million, no one really knows, and many place it much higher. Surely she is the wealthiest woman in Britain, and in all likelihood one of the half-dozen wealthiest...
...repairing the bad genes, it can increasingly determine that they are present. Genetic counselors can thus advise prospective parents on the possibilities that their offspring will be born with genetic diseases. Properly informed, a couple that runs a high risk of producing a defective child may well decide to forgo having children...
...think it would be both admirable and wise for Dean Bok and the University as a whole to forgo any such ceremonies this year. Dean Bok has already announced that the University faces a grave crisis in funding. Student aid programs, so often, are the first to be cut. What sense, then, could there be to a lavish, extravagant show of grandeur that Harvard can ill afford...
...agency (there was a three-year waiting list for normal Caucasian children). But in the year that she has had Corey, 2, the boy's personality and intelligence have blossomed. To Ruth, adopting a child is the answer for both single and married people who have decided to forgo children because of their concern about the population explosion. "Form a family with what has already been provided," she suggests. "That way you will be helping to solve the problem...
...compound the problem, aerial spraying used to be so effective that mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...