Word: forgoes
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...000—but for the first time all events, including the $40-per-plate gala, were entirely funded by donations from supporters and corporate sponsors. The decision to refuse public funds for the ceremonies came on the heels of Romney and Healy’s pledge to forgo their salaries for the duration of their terms...
...expressions of support from Senate colleagues and Mississippi constituents. It's hard to know what may have changed in Trent Lott's heart. But what's certain is that he knows how to count votes. And if he calculates that it's safe for a Southern, white Republican to forgo the old racial code words, that's a measure of progress. --With reporting by James Carney, John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Jackson Baker/Oxford
...good Alcoholics Anonymous member will tell you, half of defeating your problem is realizing that you have one in the first place. Although we might want to, we cannot magically whisk away those individuals who hold views that disgust us, or for one minute ask them to forgo their constitutional—and moral—right to express those opinions, however loathsome. But for our own sake, we must start lancing the lies. For it is only through being alert to the ignorant and bigoted bile currently being spewed out by all sorts of figures, from Senator Lott...
...pounding chili peppers in a mortar with salt, olive oil, and spices. Harissa is one of the foundations of all North African cooking, and it’s excellent at Baraka Café. You’d be well-advised to order harissa alone as a meze ($3.50), and forgo the Karentika. The Zaatar Coca ($4.50)—a hand-stretched bread, grilled over a fire, then sprinkled with herbs and piled with fantastically sweet caramelized onions—is also a must-order...
...perks like free bagel breakfasts, ice cream, yoga--even the fresh flowers that once perfumed the loft offices. It wasn't enough. In a last-ditch effort to hold on to her staff of 40, she asked her partners to swallow a 20% pay cut and other workers to forgo 10%. "It's not a Utopia; we have our good and bad days," she says. But business is picking up, no one has left, and their kindly yoga instructor even donates her time. Says Tanaka: "She says we need it now more than ever." --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles...