Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hopes that high gasoline prices will make motorists keep auto engines tuned up, forgo unnecessary trips and form car pools. If each driver cut his gas consumption by 15%, the overall saving would be about 680,000 bbl. per day, or 10% of total demand...
...picking up powerful Democratic support; Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, among others, favors the idea. The leading plan has been advanced by Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Walter Mondale of Minnesota. They would increase personal income tax exemptions from the present $750 to $825; alternatively, a taxpayer could forgo using the personal exemption and simply subtract $190 from his tax bill. Estimated total reduction: $5.9 billion a year. The legislation could be introduced in the Senate as early as this week, and is expected to get quick approval; no Senator likes to vote against...
...Chapin worked were likely involved: perhaps Presidential Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. In following that lead, the reporters suffered their first crippling setback. They had been imbued from the first with the need for caution?"When in doubt, leave it out," their editors ordered?and had decided early to forgo generalizations in favor of only the specific and solid. They checked every fresh fact against at least two different sources. But the pressure of keeping one scoop ahead of the competition?notably TIME's Sandy Smith?inevitably led to slips in the pair's failsafe procedure. A hasty conversation with...
...only direct involvement took place on April 19, 1971, while the corporation's pledge of $200,000 to support the 1972 Republican National Convention was not made until June of 1971. The paper confirmed that Nixon had called Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, and ordered him to forgo an appeal on one of the suits against ITT. Such a move was sought by the corporation. The paper did not, however, note Nixon's blunt language in directing Kleindienst. "You son of a bitch, can't you understand the English language?" That was Nixon's comment...
Inflation has worked its way into the innermost interstices of the economy. A key reason is that, though it may change its definition of full employment, the nation remains committed to using the full spending powers of the Government to avoid a deep recession. Thus the U.S. must forgo the breaks in the price spiral that recessions used to produce...