Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...patronize 900 numbers devoted to dirty talk. To have to listen to a man's sexual fantasies is to be forced, at least for the moment, to share them. (With animals? No kidding.) And that is a level of intimacy that even married people, in couples, often choose to forgo for the sake of their mutual illusions...
...will be comforted and inspired by his example. It is a pity that such of his predecessors in the White House as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, each bearing on his shoulders the burden of a nation in dire peril, should be forced by the Victorian ethic to forgo the solace of a good cry. And then there was General George Washington at Valley Forge, who reportedly cried as seldom as he lied...
...turn their activities into cash, their image subtly changes. They appear less and less as a charitable institution seeking truth and more and more as a huge commercial operation... the feelings it genders will not be quite the same as those produced by an institution that is prepared to forgo income, if need be, to preserve values of a nobler kind...
...court's 5-to-4 vote forces the thousands of clinics that get aid from Washington under Title X of the Public Health Service Act to make a stark choice: either halt their abortion-counseling and -referral services or forgo federal funds, at a time when most clinics are strapped for cash. Until last week, the 1988 regulations -- which bar such clinics from offering either spoken instruction or printed materials that "encourage, promote or advocate abortion" -- were not enforced, pending the outcome of legal challenges...
...penned the Roe decision, differed sharply, pointing to the 1988 regulation that requires clinic staff members to answer all abortion inquiries with the words "The project does not consider abortion an appropriate method of family planning." He warned that a patient will construe this message "as professional advice to forgo her right to obtain an abortion...