Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further step toward dignity, the Senate's presiding officer must forgo reading or chatting with cronies during some of the august body's duller sessions. He must now, the rules insist, give the semblance of attending to the proceedings...
...quipped their way through the facts to get at the nub of the important stories. There was even an Inquiring Reporter-a girl with the engaging name of Novella O'Hara. What gave the program added interest was the obvious absence of calculated showmanship and a willingness to forgo pictorial values for the sake of the news itself. Viewer response was so great that KQED now plans to make Newspaper of the Air a regular weekly staple...
...some shops and drugstores, cigarette counters forgo profits to sell smokes as "loss leaders"-a tactic aimed at building customer traffic in general. At the other end of the price scale, the tactics are less subtle. In mid-Manhattan, not far from an A. & P. supermarket where shoppers buy regular-size cigarettes at 39? a pack, conventioneers visiting the Big Town can pay the big price at the New York Hilton newsstand-52? for nonfilter regulars, 53? for other kinds-and get some big lip too. "Because that's what we charge!" jeers the counterman at anyone who questions...
Retailers especially hope that the return of warm weather may finally bring out shoppers who have been staying away from stores. To woo them even more, Washington economists believe that Lyndon Johnson may well forgo the 6% surtax on personal-income taxes that was supposed to take effect on July...
...contributions, whether or not they are conscious of it. As in the case of Japan or China, the initial stimulus to development may come from outside--in the shattering influence of a technologically more developed society. But the drive itself depends on a local leadership disciplined enough to forgo its own pleasures in order to promote advancement. This is the consideration that should inform all programs of assistance, whether monetary, technical, or human