Word: forfeits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the alleged assault occurred six months ago, the prosecutors only recently identified Fox as the suspect. Following the slashing, referee Rick Perry asked Fox's coach to identify the player involved or accept a forfeit...
Perhaps the best argument against the death penalty--insofar as it is the most palatable--is that human beings cannot impose it with consistency or rationality. If retribution must be precise, you may forfeit your own life when you take someone else's. But we have no way of imposing such a system equitably or sensible. We should follow similar reasoning as that expounded by the creators of American government, and impose a single check and balance on ourselves: categorical proscription of the death penalty...
...disappointing, however, that many others forfeit their souls to the incubus of identity politics, supporting the side that favors them on one issue regardless of how they feel about the soundness of its total ideology. Wedding yourself to a whole questionable agenda just because one or two items serve your ends is not only irresponsible, it displays a profound lack of conscience...
...Attorney's Office has entertained no thoughts of letting two career criminals waltz away with $5 million in spending money in return for the art. The office is willing to deal--but on its own terms. For his part, Myles Connor last week told TIME he would forfeit any reward or reduction of the 2 1/2 years left on his sentence, provided Billy be freed and three other unnamed inmates have their cases reconsidered. The three mugs got bum raps, says the rogue crusader...
...difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other networks are also hinting that their channels won't be devoted solely to pure HDTV. Says Charles Jablonski, a senior executive at NBC: "We have yet to see a compelling reason to forfeit our flexibility...