Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...states may go to repel raiders came two weeks ago, when Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey signed into law the toughest antitakeover statute in the U.S. The sweeping measure requires an investor who holds 20% or more of a company's shares for less than two years to forfeit any profit on shares sold within 18 months of a failed takeover bid. The law would discourage takeover artists from launching a raid to drive up the price of a target company's stock and then selling out at a profit...
...current system, all students (with the exception of the few who live off-campus or in the co-ops) pay $2145 (about $9.25 a day) per year for 21 meals per week. Students have three options: eat in one of the dining halls, get a bag lunch or forfeit their money and go out. In practice, the average student takes 14 meals a week in the University system, making the average cost per meal...
...Hoskinson (WNE) wins by forfeit...
After a medication has lost its patent protection, many companies raise the price to recoup some of the losses caused by the immediate drop in market share. A company can forfeit as much as 30% of that share in the first year after generic substitutes become available, but many physicians continue to prescribe only the brand-name medications they have come to trust and rely on. When generic versions of the potent heart medication Dyazide were introduced in the mid-1980s, the drug's inventor, SmithKline Beckman, raised the compound's price...