Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forma appeal for all Americans to vote, his forces were more selectively keying their telephone banks and other get-out-the-vote drives to his areas of known strength. Even if the turnout is in the low 50% range, Carter could win a thin popular-vote edge but lose in the Electoral College. More probably, how ever, this would enable Carter to hold a slim popular-vote margin that could translate into a substantial electoral victory. At 55% or better, he is generally conceded the election...
Opponents of uniform electric rates did a good job spreading their view that the state would lose many jobs if everyone paid the same rate for electricity. The electorate, wary of hurting the economy, rejected this referendum by nearly a three-to-one margin...
...lose the unique meanings of places when we lose the buildings that define them. The book's linked photos and text demonstrate remarkably effectively how physical structure is social structure, how the framework that holds an activity reflects and shapes it. The analysis speaks so directly to personal experience that it's hard to read straight through Forgotten America; I began to mentally illustrate how the form of a building conveys its meaning with my own experiences--what it signifies that Mather House is a fortress on the outskirts of Harvard's enclave, that Leverett House closely resembles a Holiday...
...outgoing House, dominated by Democrats elected on the heels of the 1974 Watergate scandals, elected in usually Republican districts, was expected to lose some Democratic seats in these areas...
...that's the best that can occur (assuming that you don't lose to Columbia, Yale and Dartmouth to Princeton, and if all three of these things occur, then Jimmy Carter is a straight talker...