Word: forfeited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facts. "My company does 700 books a year," explains Thomas J. McCormack, president of St. Martin's Press. "We would go bust examining them a11." Recalling them may prove more expensive. Random House is spending an estimated $150,000 to buy back Heymann's book, and will forfeit a prospective six-figure paperback sale...
...Once you've had the experience of teaching students--and being stretched by students--it's a reward that you wouldn't want to forfeit. And that's why I've been eager to retain the possibility of teaching students," Peretz explains...
...configuration. The Wound Laboratory is perfectly designed to bring on a confrontation between the zealot and the omelet maker (the omelet maker being the one who always insists that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs). The issue is framed exactly: animal life is forfeit to the potential gain of human life. An ironist would point out that the Wound Laboratory would put animals to death in order to perfect the human talent to make war-and that war is humanity's most dramatic bestiality. Inevitably, the idea of the Wound Laboratory received publicity...
...work. "The whole thing has become deadly, deadly, deadly serious," says Australia II Executive Director Warren Jones. "We train like commandos." The eleven-man crew enjoys impressive backup support. As Australia II was maneuvering before the start of a race last week, its carbon fiber boom buckled, making a forfeit seem probable. But its tender came alongside, and within ten minutes a $9,000 aluminum boom was in place and the yacht was ready with time to spare...
...order to evaluate its procedures, the Government declared a moratorium on federal coal leases. The hiatus, which did not end until 1981, effectively froze the market for coal leases, making future evaluations of tracts difficult. A 1976 reform requiring new leaseholders to mine their fields within ten years or forfeit their rights further complicated the mathematics of mine leasing...