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...some chicken and fish. The new Vegetarian Times restaurant guide, to be published this month, will list more than a thousand vegetarian eateries in the U.S. and Canada, compared with just 350 in 1978. Next month potential converts in upwards of 150 cities across the nation are expected to forgo meat for a day to mark the fourth annual Great American Meatout, sponsored by a coalition of vegetarian, consumer and other groups...
Controlling the size of the enterprise means more collegial working conditions. FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house's cachet "made it an honor to take less money." Doing business the old-fashioned way has long-term rewards as well. "Sometimes a writer ahead of his time has to be nursed along," says Giroux. "Remember, Moby Dick...
...complex financial allegations could erode the aura of rebellious underdog that Hart has cultivated since his return. No longer can he get ) mileage out of the boast that he was the first Democrat to forgo PAC money. Nor will he be able to draw applause by pulling out his wallet and proclaiming, "This is our campaign treasury." But there is a limit to the damage that can be done. Because even young boys on bicycles subscribe to the conventional wisdom that Hart cannot win, new charges may not make much difference to his candidacy...
...younger DuPont said his father believes the Social Security system will fail unless the government persuades some citizens to forgo their benefits. DuPont's plan would offer workers the chance to invest their Social Security payments in a tax-free account instead of paying the required fee to the Social Security system...
...Those who possessed and those who were possessed struggled, like most people at all times, everywhere, to get through their days; neither history nor the exigencies of survival allowed them much time for meditation or outrage. To portray the texture of such lives, a novelist must be willing to forgo reflective indignation and let the characters and details speak for themselves...