Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under way in the next few months in the rubber, trucking, electrical and auto industries. If labor wins big wage boosts, Nixon will be confronted again with the specter of inflation. He would have to make an unhappy choice: either he would have to impose a wage freeze and forfeit labor support that he has so assiduously cultivated, or the Federal Reserve Board would constrict the supply of money for loans, thus slowing down the economy and risking another recession...
Sophomore Bart Vandissel won by forfeit at 191 lbs., and junior Robert Kristoff became the only junior to win all day, pinning sophomore Scott Drill in the heavyweight, and final, competition...
...likes of Spillane use sadomasochism calculatedly and in trite conjunction with sex. Francis' men (he would never harm a woman) customarily suffer alone, in traps set by a villain far offstage. In addition, permanent personal affliction usually lurks somewhere. The hero of For Kicks has a crippled hand. Forfeit-one of Francis' stronger plots-is marred by a wife in an iron lung whose patience rivals Penelope's. In the new book, the hero has a damaged child-big brother dropped her on her head, poor little nipper-but fortunately she is a continent away from most...
...loss will go down officially as a forfeit since Hart refused to leave the gym after being ejected by referee Tom O'Donnell with two seconds left on the clock in B.U.'s Case Athletic Center...
...them in part by the evaluation cited above), the Governor's Committee has decided to delay funding for the Bureau until March, and has cut the new budget by nearly $90,000. Kids in Cambridge could use that money, and it is a shame if they have to forfeit it, apparently because of the doings of a man who drives in from the suburbs to watch them parade past the picture window of his $1200-a-month Mass Ave offices. It is a shame that kids have so few substantive programs in their neighborhoods, and it is a shame that...