Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively small unions managed to wring average first-year wage increases of 7% or more from their employers. But the two biggest unions in the study were far more accommodating. Both the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Ford Motor Co. members of the United Auto Workers agreed to forgo any wage increases in order to help hold down costs and prevent further layoffs in their recession-squeezed industries. With 335 major wage contracts covering 1.4 million unionized workers coming up for negotiation in the current quarter, a continuation of the wage restraint would be the best evidence that...
Twenty administrators have notified President John X. Jamrich that they will forgo salary increases for 1982-83 and take days off without pay to help achieve a budget reduction of about $3 million. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported recently...
...17th century and, in search of religious freedom, fled to England and Holland in the 18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood. They use fine, sturdy workhorses to spread manure and plow their fields, which is what they are doing these days as spring spreads over their green country...
Washington swiftly rejected Brezhnev's proposals. "A freeze simply isn't good enough because it doesn't go far enough," said President Reagan in a speech to the Oklahoma state legislature. Instead, Reagan reminded Brezhnev of his "zero option" proposal made last November, in which the U.S. would forgo placing its new Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil if Moscow would scrap its arsenal of SS-20 missiles...
...sovereignty." There could be no doubt that Ismail was speaking in Sadat's name. Sadat could have used the airlift as a pretext to unleash the mobs in the Arab world against us, as Nasser had done with far less provocation in 1967. But Sadat was willing to forgo posturing for attainable progress. He had taken the measure of Soviet support: always enough to keep tensions high, never enough to bring about a settlement...