Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flurry of legislative innovation, his government seems to be marking time. Two weeks ago Levesque was further embarrassed when House Leader Robert Burns resigned for reasons of health. Before leaving, Burns criticized some of his Cabinet colleagues for being interested only in power and predicted that the government would lose the referendum. "I don't want to be there when it happens," he grumbled...
...real question now is not whether Levesque will lose the referendum but when. The Premier, who made a campaign promise that the referendum would take place some time during his first term, has repeatedly delayed the vote; it will probably not be taken before next spring...
Egypt was also suspended from the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries and will thus lose its shares in three inter-Arab companies with a total capital of $2.8 billion. Although it did not specify exactly when the decision would take effect, the Arab Civil Aviation Council voted to close Arab airspace to Egypt's national airline, EgyptAir, and ordered its 17 member airlines to suspend flights to Egypt...
...skilled, be learned, be aware of the dignity of your calling. But please don't ever lose sight of your own simple humanity...
...familiar tale Joyce told, but the manner in which he told it, that compels one's attention and awe. And there is simply no way to construct a film that can contain more than a suggestion of the verbal richness of a novel. Interior monologues lose their power when they are transformed into voice-overs or dialogue scenes. Those long, obsessive scenes in which Stephen Dedalus flexes his revolutionary's muscles in aesthetic and theological debate with school friends become strangely wooden when, instead of reading them on the printed page, we are forced to watch actors trying...