Word: forgoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...acquired a sense of compassion and empathy for others. And they have begun to be taught the difference between right and wrong and that hurtful actions have consequences. Many youngsters, though, fail to acquire those early curbs on conduct. Later on, when children misbehave, indulgent parents make excuses and forgo punishments. Young boys who grow up with absent or uninvolved fathers suffer doubly in that they often fail to develop a healthy sense of masculinity...
Several spouses have got into Betty Wright-like trouble. In 1976 Marion Javits, wife of the late Senator Jacob Javits, had to forgo a lucrative contract with Iran Air. In 1984 Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield's wife Antoinette ran into trouble when Greek businessman Basil Tsakos paid her $55,000 for decorating his apartment, which seemed like a lot for choosing fabric swatches and paint chips, while her husband was simultaneously urging federal support for Tsakos' $12 billion oil pipeline...
...rejecting Rushdie's apology and declaring flatly, "It is incumbent on every Muslim to do everything possible to send him to hell." Three days later, in a speech to a group of Iranian clerics, Khomeini added that nothing, not even Western economic sanctions, would "force us to retreat and forgo implementation of God's decree...
...young and striving but currently impecunious; if you buy clothes at Benetton and the Gap and like your eat-in, take-out fast food cheap, light and stylish; and if you love decorative $2.99-to-$3.99 sandwiches so much you're willing to forgo the d, then San'wiches may be for you, though expectations are that it will take five years before the planned 500 are cloned nationwide...