Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along with welfare mothers whose youngest children are under six. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long declares. "I find difficulty in saying a mother with children is not expected to work when most women with children are working." If a welfare mother refuses to take a job, she will forfeit her personal benefit of $1,900 a year. But payments would be continued to her children: $ 1,100 for the first child, $600 for each additional one. While the mother works, she will be allowed to deduct from her taxes up to 20% of her earned income for child care...
With a couple of the varsity racketeers sick and another half dozen out with academic conflicts, the weakened Crimson called up three J.V. team members, but a shortage of personnel still forced the forfeit of one doubles match...
That left the match knotted at three each. Adding in the forfeit at number two doubles, the final tally read 4-3, with the Crimson racquetwomen one short...
...anti-intramural sports. What are you, crazy? I don't get any exercise as it is, and if it weren't for intramurals, I'd get even less. (Winthrop, incidentally, took its fourth straight softball triumph--its second by forfeit--yesterday afternoon...
Saturday, the Crimson fell 6-3 to Yale in the morning, then succumbed to Princeton 4-3 in a brutal afternoon match. Only Sunday's forfeit win over Columbia, which placed Harvard seventh in the tourney, kept the ruggers from the ranks of the Ofors...