Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency (there was a three-year waiting list for normal Caucasian children). But in the year that she has had Corey, 2, the boy's personality and intelligence have blossomed. To Ruth, adopting a child is the answer for both single and married people who have decided to forgo children because of their concern about the population explosion. "Form a family with what has already been provided," she suggests. "That way you will be helping to solve the problem...
...compound the problem, aerial spraying used to be so effective that mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...
...Travel. In this summer of America's economic discontent, oddly, the travel industry may be enjoying its most lucrative season ever. "There are two things Americans always do," says Clarence Stansbury of Michigan's Automobile Club. "Drink and travel." Despite inflation, recession, unemployment, few are willing to forgo at least a brief period of summer's ease. Indeed the impulse to get away from it all is, if anything, even more intense this year. There is so much more to get away from. Observed Hugh Johnson, an American Express manager in Beverly Hills, Calif.: "People figure they...
...Palme, 43, an abrasively expressive Social Democrat, has been one of his nation's strongest critics of U.S. war policies. Advance word that Palme would be as outspoken in the U.S. as he is at home only increased the Administration's annoyance. Both sides tacitly agreed to forgo the customary White House courtesy call...
...five workers are women, only one out of five union members is a woman. Detroit's outspoken Labor Leader Myra Wolfgang figures that men labor chiefs-harboring some old prejudices-really believe that women are overly individualistic, selfish and impulsive and lack the discipline to forgo immediate benefits in order to work for long-range organizational goals. To those indictments women reply that men are the unfair...