Word: forswearing
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...hoods over their heads and peered out through mirrored eye slits. The usual uniform is a brightly colored windbreaker over a jumpsuit. Gloves are worn at all times. Members can say yes, no or "I don't know" but otherwise communicate only by written messages. They study the Bible, forswear sex, drugs and alcohol. They are, however, permitted to watch TV newscasts and read newspapers to emphasize the differences between the values of the camp and the outside world. The newspaper obituaries, stock-market reports and sports pages are clipped out because they are considered distracting...
...Rodeo Drive to its 66 other retail outlets across the country. And in a final one-two punch, the National Labor Relations Board forced the firm to rehire employees it had fired for union sympathizing, while the U.S. Labor Department nudged it off the "Trendsetter" list of manufacturers who forswear sweatshop practices...
That vicious, exponential math exacts a human toll long after conflict ends. Still, the notion that the U.S. should forswear the use of mines is unpopular among many at the Pentagon. "There's no easy way to defend a perimeter without land mines," an Army officer says. "But it's just politically incorrect to support the use of land mines right now." The ability to block an enemy's retreat by quickly dropping mines from the air is another advantage that some officials are loath to relinquish. "Mine opponents say it's a matter of morality and not military utility...
...program.....In place of fairness, the military offers a hypocritical "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows homosexuals to serve, so long as they keep their sexuality to themselves and stay celibate....It would seem sensible to permit ROTC as a valuable program but to forswear funding it as part of a discriminatory institution....We asked the administration to further distance itself from ROTC funding by appointing an independent administrator...so we are pleased that Acting President Albert Carnesale..[created] an independent charitable trust to continue ROTC funding...
Therefore, it would seem sensible to permit ROTC as a valuable program but to forswear funding it as part of a discriminatory institution...