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...congressional speaking fees would require new legislation. But if Ronald Reagan includes the raises in his last budget, they will automatically take effect unless Congress votes within 30 days to forgo them. In 1987, when Congressmen got a $12,100 pay raise, the House voted against it -- on the 31st...
...willing to forgo the legalization of Solidarity to reach a broader agreement -- say, genuine pluralism within the existing official trade unions...
...more is expected, than maybe youth will rise to the challenge--keeping sparkling clean records with no tales we would be embarrassed to hear on the evening news. If we forgo the embarrassments and pleasures that accrue to those having few responsibilities, we will miss out on one of life's rarest, most precious opportunities--freedom from mortgages to pay, families to raise and daily jobs to work...
Those people looking for a break from the electron-based spittle that dribbles from your tube should forgo Big Time, where even the stage is designed to mimic the glowing box. Subtitled "Scenes from a Service Economy," this recent play by Keith Reddin rarely has anything to offer that isn't of McQuality. Even though a pleasantly short production of 75 minutes--with commercial breaks that's a 90 minute TV special--Big Time rapidly becomes tiresome and repititious...
However, many other universities do not have the capacity to create similar watchdog groups and often can not afford to forgo badly needed federal funds. Unlike most universities, Harvard can afford to turn down federally funded projects that curtail the sharing of information...