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Foreign Debt: The IMF should call on western creditors--governments, suppliers and banks--to forgo all debt service, interest and principal alike, in 1992. As in any virulent financial collapse, a stand-still is needed while the bankrupt party puts its house in order under new management. The debts would still remain payable, in full, eventually...
...every three, or more than 65,000, farm worker children in the Central Valley suffers from severe hunger. Two out of every three farm worker families in this region face monthly food shortages. Farm worker children as young as five or six years old, are forced to forgo education and work in the fields to help their family survive...
...patronize 900 numbers devoted to dirty talk. To have to listen to a man's sexual fantasies is to be forced, at least for the moment, to share them. (With animals? No kidding.) And that is a level of intimacy that even married people, in couples, often choose to forgo for the sake of their mutual illusions...
...will be comforted and inspired by his example. It is a pity that such of his predecessors in the White House as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each bearing on his shoulders the burden of a nation in dire peril, should be forced by the Victorian ethic to forgo the solace of a good cry. And then there was General George Washington at Valley Forge, who reportedly cried as seldom as he lied...
...turn their activities into cash, their image subtly changes. They appear less and less as a charitable institution seeking truth and more and more as a huge commercial operation... the feelings it genders will not be quite the same as those produced by an institution that is prepared to forgo income, if need be, to preserve values of a nobler kind...