Suburban superintendents said that they wholeheartedly endorsed equalizing the spending between rich and poor districts, but that financially penalizing their districts was educationally unsound.

The Nets can leave the Meadowlands at any time but would be penalized financially for leaving New Jersey before 2004.

Aid for Children New York's learnfare program, which would financially penalize families with elementary-school-aged children who did not attend school regularly, would be phased in over three years.

Part of the progress came from management's decision to shelve, temporarily at least, its demand for a large "luxury tax" that would financially penalize teams with high payrolls.

Cable companies do not financially penalize a subscriber for not having a local phone; however cable Internet services are usually more expensive if the customer does not subscribe to their television services.

In particular, Jews were penalized financially for their perceived racial status.

Last year, for example, Social Security rules were changed to stop financially penalizing 65- to 69-year-olds for continuing to work.

However, passenger name changes are typically prevented or financially penalized by contract.

And regardless of the assessment, research managers are penalized financially when the business unit whose relationship they manage fails to meet I.B.M.'s performance goals.