Word: forgoes
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They’ve had to forgo that alluring elective—“Psychology and the Law,” “The History of Harvard and Its Presidents” or “Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometry”—to fulfill that pesky Foreign Cultures or Science B Core requirement...
...many Harvard affiliates still forgo the privilege of being buried on the hill, in favor of their family plots...
...just families that define themselves through foods. Whole cultures do so too. Muslims eat halal and Jews eat kosher and Roman Catholics forgo meat on Fridays. Moroccans don't eat what Swedes eat, who don't eat what the Japanese eat, who don't eat what Croatians eat. When families leave their home countries and settle elsewhere, the cultural feathering they bring with them--language, dress, music--is often shed within a generation. But the foods linger. "The last part of a culture that gets lost are the food ways," says Barrett Brenton, nutritional anthropologist at St. John's University...
Some psychology concentrators choose to forgo the intensity of the thesis process in favor of other coursework...
...been a shortage in the face of so daunting a challenge as Iraq poses. And as for the violation of American values, we must recalculate the cost of the post-9/11 instinct to change the rules we play by, detain whomever we need to, forget due process and forgo the Geneva Convention. If this is indeed a fight to the death, what is it we are fighting for, if not the values we seem so ready to sacrifice on the grounds that this is a different kind of war? There will be other causes and threats, and we will...