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Wyoming, meanwhile, remained the country's last holdout against raising the drinking age when the legislature refused for the third time to increase the minimum from 19 to 21. Wyoming will forfeit more than $11 million in federal highway funds over the next year. But, explains Wyoming Historian T.S. Larson, "it is a tradition that we are a hard-drinking lot, and we don't like people to interfere with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liquor: Drinks All Around | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

Shaeffer who was called for interference that led to two Milwaukee runs in the second, said he would gladly forfeit his homer for a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/10/1987 | See Source »

While I support feminist theory and welcome its challenges to everything from sexuality to psychology to literary analysis, I now realize that feminist theory is too limited to support a Women's Studies concentration. When students concentrate in Women's Studies they will forfeit the opportunity to put feminist classics in an appropriatly wide context...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: A Study of Women's Studies | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Some immediate visible success may be less a military than a political necessity for the contras. As Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, if the contras do not have "some kind of success" soon, they will likely forfeit American support. The contras' greatest weakness could be the nature of their great-power patron. It could be that the U.S. does not have the patience to support the incremental struggle that is guerrilla war. And the contras certainly cannot win without outside support. Very few guerrilla armies do. Not even the Viet Cong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Support the Contras? | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

Hall could make more money if he chased the wild animals off his land. "But this is the last of the game," he says, speaking intensely. "So at all costs you must forfeit money to save it. It doesn't look very hopeful for the game, but you mustn't give up. I will fight to the last." That vibration is heard again and again: "Cattle can be replaced anytime, but the game cannot. What right have we to eliminate game? I would eliminate all humans and leave it to the wildlife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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