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Other studies paint a grimmer picture. The National Association of Women Business Owners puts the number of lost jobs nationally at 39 per small business over the past five years. It found that to prepare for the estate tax, half of all small businesses pay for insurance, 40% forgo investment, 40% plan to sell all or part of the business and 33% plan to incur debt--all choices that hurt the economy...
DiPietro, however, lost his NCAA eligibility by declaring for the draft. Only 18 years old, he was not automatically placed on the list of available players and had to "opt-in" to the draft. In the process, he had to forgo his remaining three years at B.U. and is now the latest goaltending savior for the Islanders as the first netminder ever selected with the No. 1 pick overall...
...life cycle. Rapid development in computer technology, they point out, has spun off robotics and the Internet--to the great benefit of industry and human communications. Besides, it isn't so easy for a free society to put the brakes on technology. Even if one country decided to forgo the next technological revolution, another country would gladly take...
...Even today, we cannot test a high-speed interceptor against any incoming missile traveling faster than 5 km per SEC. because the Russians are afraid it might be effective against their ICBMs. This is quite crazy. It means that because of a cold war relic, the U.S. has to forgo building the most effective defense it can against nuclear attack by a rogue state such as North Korea...
...decline of activism in the '70s was an economic reaction as well. During the boom times of the '60s, students, especially Harvard students, could take jobs for granted and afford to forgo academics in favor of idealism...