Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search every person and car that crossed our frontiers. Last year almost 40 million people crossed into Italy, and of these 15 million came over for less than 24 hours and then went out again. If we searched everybody we would paralyze border traffic and what we would lose from tourism alone would be far greater than the loss suffered from currency smuggling...
...told me before the season that we would beat Hofstra and then lose to Lowell," Harvard coach John Lee said last night, "I would have had no conception of that." And yet that's what almost happened to the Crimson, probably because Lee took the Terriers too lightly...
...next bout, a near-fall earned Harvard's Ed Bordley (167 lbs.) two points when Lee felt his matman deserved three, and the Crimson grappler went on to lose...
...magnificent protrait of the ambivalent situation of the radical intellectual who has given his whole life to the movement as an organizer, but whose committment is to some extent egotistical and at the expense other committments. The film concludes on a pessimistic rather than a romantic note--the workers lose the strike--but nevertheless manages to convey a sense of the possibilities for ordinary working people to take control of their own lives and overcome oppression. This message serves as a powerful source of political comment for everyone I know who has seen the film. The only other political films...
Jimmy Carter has nothing to lose by declaring a universal, unconditional amnesty. Groups like the VFW and the American Legion, who are adamantly opposed to any form of amnesty, will probably protest even if Carter proclaims only a partial amnesty or "pardon." But a limited amnesty would generate protests indefinitely among the excluded victims of the Vietnam tragedy. It would certainly subvert any goal of reconciliation...