Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerless small businessmen, landholders and workers who, because of sociological and economic changes in French society, had begun to swing toward the left. Yet Chirac is no deGaulle, and in whipping up a general reactionary fervor--without producing substantive new responses to those underlying socio-economic conditions--he may lose control of the forces he has roused and eventually find himself the victim of the frustration he has tried to harness...
...These local offices are the sources of patronage and favors that make life in Boston more pleasant--last year selective tree planting in East Boston was one of White's ways of rewarding supporters. This difference between statewide offices, where Republicans often win, and local ones, where they usually lose, justifies Representative Frank's comment on the Kearns Report, "If that is going to be Harvard's contribution to Boston politics, they better stick to Asia...
...President Ford, Carter's touch was uncertain, his demeanor occasionally strident, and his 33-point lead in the polls melted to nothing. Fighting courageously, Ford came close to pulling a Trumanesque upset. But all along, Carter had said calmly, "I do not intend to lose." In the end, of course, he won by 51% to 48%; his plurality of 1,681,417 in the popular vote was far greater than the winning margins of John Kennedy in 1960 and Richard Nixon in 1968. The Democratic Party was Carter's, as well as the White House. Because of his impressive rise...
...first popular test of Fukuda's policies and of whether he has revived the L.D.P. will come in July, when the Japanese elect a new upper house. The L.D.P. majority there is now a razor-thin one seat, and the party may lose control-unless Fukuda by his actions regains some of that faded popularity...
Though these steps have hauled GEICO back into the black, and the $75 million sale of preferred stock has rebuilt its depleted reserves, the company is likely to go on shrinking for a while. GEICO is still losing policyholders it wants to keep; some are failing to renew because they distrust the company's finances, others because they will not accept the stiff premium increases. GEICO sells homeowners' insurance as well as auto policies-and some mortgage lenders are demanding that householders switch to richer insurers as their GEICO policies expire. Counting the policies already taken over...