Word: forfeited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peacekeeping tab from 30% to 25%. (The U.S. expects a $320 million bill this year.) "Countries would have been willing to lower the U.S. portion," says U.N. information officer Jessica Jiji, "if they had paid their dues." And if the U.S. loses its General Assembly vote, it may also forfeit its moral strength in the battle to restrain the growth of the U.N. budget. Says U.N. Under-Secretary-General Joseph Connor: "Somebody sitting on the bench isn't throwing the balls...
...Americans forfeit $150 million a year by mistiming sales. Savings bonds bought before May 1995 pay interest only twice a year. The best time to redeem them is immediately after interest has been credited...
...would it be more productive elsewhere? The MAC is filled with rusty weight machines from before the crossing of the Mayflower, there is not a single library open for 24-hour study, boosts to financial aid could help right the rising racial imbalance of the student body and the forfeit of electric-teal chemicals could give the typically low-skilled landscapers and other Harvard employees a living wage. For starters...
...would it be more productive elsewhere? The MAC is filled with rusty weight machines from before the crossing of the Mayflower, there is not a single library open for 24-hour study, boosts to financial aid could help right the rising racial imbalance of the student body and the forfeit of electric-teal chemicals could give the typically low-skilled landscapers and other Harvard employees a living wage. For starters...
...terrifying even if they're not really there. But such stealthiness poses a tactical quandary. It requires absolute radio silence, whereas in today's U.S. military all key forces are bound together by waves of always-flowing electronic data. A U.S. submarine plugged into such "network-centric" warfare would forfeit some of its vital silence, potentially betraying its position to the enemy...