Word: forgoes
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...issue that puts the two sides of Reagan's persona at conflict. The visionary side sees SDI as a salvation for mankind, a foolproof way of rendering the nuclear threat impotent. The pragmatist in the President may realize that some sort of compromise on SDI, perhaps an agreement to forgo its development and deployment phases for a time, might be the only way of winning Soviet agreement to deep cuts in the mounting arsenals of offensive weaponry. Indeed, the single most fateful decision of 1986 could be whether or not the U.S. renews its commitment to pursue the space...
...forgo his just desserts, Youssef jumped into action. In a nod to Martin Luther, he tacked a page-long note up on his door, demanding the return of the cream-filled chocolate cakes...
With the clock ticking, and other curricular review committees finishing up their work, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby has now decided to forgo full committee meetings and draft a more substantial report this summer with a select group of professors—a move that some say will make the process more efficient, but has upset other committee members who say they feel out of the loop...
...deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders why people in a rich nation forgo college or surgery. The solutions to problems are entirely private (in exchange for product placement) and local. It's federalist...
...tune of $2 million a year. By contrast, researchers in the U.S. who want to study human embryonic stem cells are restricted to a handful of federally approved stem-cell lines--most of which, they say, are of such poor quality they cannot be used. Or scientists can forgo federal funding and look to state or private financing for their work. "In this country, we've been stumbling to create public policy," says Melton...