Word: forfeiting
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...Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
Opening their season in the Orange Bowl, the Crimson gridders win by forfeit when Columbia is unable to scrape together airfare for the flight South. Workers predict stadium renovations will be completed in time for the University's 350th anniversary...
Other actions would prove equally futile and dangerous. Blocking the rescheduling of Poland's $27-billion debt could severely damage Western banks should the Poles forfeit; besides, most experts agree that the Soviet Union could easily bail out Poland. Cancelling scheduled U.S.-Soviet talks on nuclear arms reduction would be worst of all, and would split the alliance asunder...
Leverett House football coach Mike Rapposelli must be wondering if he did the right thing when deciding to play a game against an undermanned Eliot squad. He had the option of demanding a forfeit and being assured of a trip to Yale, enabling his team to play in House-College football competition, but instead, he chose to play and his team got crunched by Eliot 19-0. As a consequence, Leverett gridders will be spending next Friday in Cambridge, not New Haven. "I was aware of my options. But I was there to play football. We were keyed...
ILLEGAL USE OF THE HANDS--If during the course of congratulation, the team captain and/or the scorer engage in any sort of contact which the referee determines is disgraceful, disgusting, unnatural or unmanly, the scoring team will be forced to forfeit the contest. The players will be suspended for up to five games and fined up to $5000, by determination of the league office. Children under 17 will not be allowed to view this infraction...