Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main reason women seek work is that one paycheck is no longer enough. Women enter the work force to make up for lost purchasing power. When they lose their jobs their families are decidedly poorer. And this is what makes unemployment much worse for people than it appears to statisticians...
...explain that in exclusive Georgetown, $40,000 might buy a garage but certainly not a house. Copying machines are busily grinding out resumes for 2,200 or so soon-to-be-jobless Republican appointees. And the city's social climbers are agonizing over the possibility that they may lose out in the coming scramble for status. In myriad ways, the Carters of Plains, Ga., have the capital in a tizzy...
...government's aggressive family-planning program, which has caused rioting, resulting in some deaths in several northern cities and towns. Birth control has become such an inflammatory issue in some heavily Moslem sectors that a secret intelligence report reputedly warned Mrs. Gandhi, 59, that she might lose an open election in her own state of Uttar Pradesh, where the Congress Party traditionally relies on strong Moslem support...
This nondiet is clearly not for everyone. About 20% of those who sign up eventually drop out. Others have occasional lapses, like yielding to the temptation of an ice cream sundae, though most seem to lose their appetites entirely. A few complain of dizziness, dry skin and hair loss in the first weeks. But if they can endure, the fasting pays off. Vertes says that of the more than 750 patients who have been treated, some 80% have lost at least 80 lbs.-to say nothing of such benefits as the reduction of blood sugar in diabetics or the lowering...
...Neighbor Pharmacy," as the UHS apothecary bags advertise, services only Harvard community members with prescriptions from UHS, sells practically no brand name drugs and does not advertise. The store keeps permanent files of the drugs it distributes, so that customers can refill prescriptions without returning to UHS if they lose their medicine. And students can charge drug purchases to their term bills...