Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scandal broke in December, when it became known that four football players received credit last summer for courses they had never taken. That disclosure prompted the resignation of an assistant football coach and raised the possibility that the university would forfeit its winning football season...
...thus far to register American outrage at the intervention--economic responses, including reductions in grain sales and high technology assistance, and symbolic responses, like the reduction in embassy staffing--make their point well enough: that if Soviet leaders resort to military force to pursue their interests abroad, they will forfeit many of the benefits of detente. Food should not be used as a political tool when its denial might cause starvation, but in this case Carter's action will demonstrate to the Soviets that America is willing to sacrifice profitable grain deals in protest...