Word: forfeit
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...would indicate a possible connection with Cunanan. Police are treating Dudley's story with care, noting that she takes high doses of blood pressure medication, and wondering why she called police immediately after Gianni Versace was shot to death. If her account holds up, Carreira may be forced to forfeit the cash put up by the FBI and the Miami Beach police for information leading to Cunanan's arrest. Carreira's attorney, James Loren, called Dudley's account "hogwash...
...Cabot sure does play. In A-league football this year, for instance, Cabot's teams went 6-0, 5-1 and 5-1 during the regular season, with the 6-0 team winning five of its games by forfeit. Some houses are lucky to field one team...
...source of dissent stems from opposition in Congress, primarily from Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Jesse Helms (R-NC), the powerful chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. If the United States does not ratify the treaty before it goes into effect, it will forfeit the opportunity to become an original party to the CWC and to determine much of its implementation. To waste this opportunity would be a grave mistake and an example of misplaced idealism on the part of uninformed officials. The Senate must seize this opportunity and ratify the treaty in the next few weeks; the reasons...
However, the choice is still met with negative responses. People who focus on the right to vote as the foundation upon which political participation is built are making a mistake. They claim that I forfeit my right to be critical of future administrations. And they misunderstand the concept of a civic society. It has to be argued that voting in the current presidential election may not produce any worthwhile results and that other forms of political participation would allow us to avoid having to choose between the lesser of two evils. Most Americans want to choose between the greater...
...must-vote" mentality has also fostered the belief that those who do not vote forfeit their right to voice displeasure at bad candidates who win office. This notion is an unfortunate distortion of the democratic philosophy because it suggest that only those who participate explicitly in the democratic process deserve to benefit and it also suggests that when a campaign is run there is a clear choice and half of us get it wrong. Given the chance to vote in 1992, I would have voted for Clinton, a choice that is clearly wrong for me in 1996. And it seems...