Word: forfeits
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Shortly afterwards, the Lions learned that senior defensive end Matt Stary was academically ineligble to play. On Nov. 15, the Ivy League ruled that the Lions would not have to forfeit either of their two victories as a result of the incident...
...declared local hero Danny Almonte to be 14 years old, and in a few more hours, Little League officials would declare that, therefore, all games played by Danny's Rolando Paulino All-Star team--known as the Baby Bombers after their Big League neighbors at Yankee Stadium--were forfeit. The team's founder, Rolando Paulino, and Danny's father Felipe de Jesus Almonte were barred from Little League for life. "We were so proud these kids were on the front pages," said Julio Heredia as he stood outside a league practice field on Webster Avenue. "Now this...
...Akihisa Yukawa left no will; he had informed his parents but not his sons or wife about his second family. The wealthy Yukawa clan offered Bayly a sum of about $400,000 on condition that she hide the existence of her daughters and forfeit any claim to the family estate. Secrecy meant she could not apply for compensation from JAL. Shocked, grieving and nursing a newborn, Bayly signed. Back in London, they lived on the payoff and with some clandestine help from Yukawa's mother...
...from Kilimanjaro is now back in Columbus, Ohio, along with numerous other specimens wrested from earlier expeditions to the impressively high mountains that ring the tropics. During the next five years, Thompson plans to retrieve still more. If it weren't for his work, the world might forfeit a natural library filled with priceless archives. For like the rings of long-lived trees and the accreted layers of massive corals, ice encodes surprisingly precise records of swings in temperature and precipitation over the centuries. Once that ice starts to melt, however, those records might as well have been written...
...UNDP estimates that the per capita cost of annual treatment for infected Africans is likely to be $1,100. That includes $600 for antiretroviral drugs and an additional $500 in other medical costs. The $600 drug figure won't be reduced much, even if, as is hoped, drug companies forfeit their patents on these medications. Though that would save precious dollars on royalties, the cost of producing the drugs will remain high. It's like Nestle giving away the recipe for Toll House chocolate-chip cookies: someone still has to pay for the ingredients...