Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coincidence, perhaps, that the most prominent Socialists seemed to be the least popular. Among government ministers, who often by custom hold jobs as mayors or councilmen in their own towns, eight won reelection, but five were defeated outright in the first round. Although the losers do not automatically forfeit their ministerial posts, they may be the first victims in a government reshuffle. Seven more faced embarrassing runoffs (held whenever the first round produces no clear-cut winner). Among them: Interior Minister Gaston Defferre, who has ruled Marseille as a personal fiefdom for 30 years; Finance Minister Jacques Delors...
Sunday pay, for example, will drop from time and a half to time and a quarter. Steelworkers with ten years' seniority will forfeit the extra 13-week vacation they get every five years, and all workers will lose at least a week of vacation for one year. United Nations Day, barely celebrated by anyone, will disappear as one of the Steelworkers' paid holidays, leaving ten a year...
South def. Currier, forfeit...
Still the one enormous obstacle to regional supremacy, which for a while Saturday Harvard seemed tantalizing close to burring remains Brown may have started out less tired than the Crimson Saturday night having played lower games thanks to a forfeit by Yale that morning...
...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...