Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These conditions are unacceptable. Harvard should never forfeit control of what is taught in its classrooms, especially to a government agency...
...suggestion that Harvard would somehow lose its academic integrity and have to "forfeit control of what is taught in the classroom" by letting ROTC return to campus makes no sense. First of all, several prominent Ivy League institutions--such as Dartmouth, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--now have ROTC on campus, and few would claim that these schools have somehow become "militarized" and lost their academic credibility. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would never let ROTC "control an academic department." If the Pentagon insists on making such demands, the faculty will simply vote to keep it off campus...
Harvard's biggest problem was its own health, playing without the services of Jacki Farrell, who stayed home because she had the flu. Jennifer Minkus, who felt strong enough to play in doubles, eventually had to forfeit her singles match because of a 102-degree fever...
...king Michael Milken, 42, his brother Lowell, 40, and Bruce Lee Newberg, 31, a former colleague of theirs at the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, with a total of 98 felony counts of stock manipulation, insider trading, racketeering and other crimes. The indictment calls for the three accused to forfeit their total compensation of $1.5 billion for 1984 through 1987 (plus interest of $257 million) and pay fines of $3.7 billion. If convicted on all counts, Milken could face a maximum prison sentence of 520 years...
Some states run such courses themselves, while others encourage colleges and universities to tailor them to the needs of career changers, who often cannot afford to forfeit full-time income. At the California State University at Dominguez Hills, one-half of the students at the Graduate School of Education are job switchers. One reason: the program provides salaried internships...