Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance has had to forgo one activity: stepping out with Wife LaBelle into Washington society from their elegant rented house in Georgetown. They get plenty of invitations, from the Averell Harrimans, the Smith Bagleys and other social heavyweights. But Lance has been unable to get away much and shows up only for state functions that he cannot avoid. Laments LaBelle: "We haven't had one party yet. Bert's just been so busy with that budget...
...places hit hardest by the Big Freeze discover when they open their latest statement from the local utility. Frank Joseph, editor of a Washington oil trade journal, saw his January bill more than double, to $161. Chicagoan Louisa McPharlin shelled out $328 for oil heating and had to forgo other expenditures, "like decorating the house." Roger Young, a 31-year-old New York City securities analyst, got a $320 January bill from Consolidated Edison for his six-bedroom Westchester home, even though he used less gas and electricity than a year...
...would be inclined to forgo continued development of a mobile U.S. nuclear missile launcher (the MX) if the Soviet Union will abandon deployment of its track-mounted launcher (the SS-20). Such mobile launchers greatly complicate the job of detecting and destroying each other's missiles and are considered a destabilizing element in a policy of mutual deterrence...
...reduce their corporate income tax by an amount equal to 4% of the Social Security payroll taxes they pay, and continue to use the 10% investment tax credit. Companies wanting to spend heavily for new plant and equipment could take a 12% investment tax credit, but would have to forgo the Social Security credit...
...Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have to do that...