Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driving north on Rte. 93 out of Boston, pushing the accelerator to the floor and trying not to lose the maroon Fairmont station wagon. There is a bumper sticker in the middle of the rear window of the Fairmont--"Paul Tsongas, U.S. Senate." In the car is Cecil Andrus, former governor of Idaho and current Secretary of the Interior, who has come to Massachusetts to endorse Tsongas. They have traded compliments about their concern for energy and the environment. Tsongas' driver is doing a steady 75. "As a member of the Select Ad-Hoc Committee on Energy, [Paul] introduced...
...represented Cambridge, along with Boston's Back Bay and parts of several other neighboring cities in Massachusetts's 18th Congressional district. By virtue of his position as Speaker of the House, his popularity throughout the district, and the overwhelmingly Democratic voter registration, "Tip" O'Neill can't possibly lose to perennial Republican challenger William "Battlin' Bill" Barnstead tomorrow...
...time to stop our "Ugly-American Diplomacy" before we lose our most loy al anti-Communist ally...
...actually has leverage over only some $20 billion in new contracts each year. Still another veiled threat came when Carter warned that he intended to "put competition back into the American free enterprise system." His implication was that companies now getting special Government protection, like limitations on imports, might lose that protection if they do not observe the price guidelines. Warned Schultze about the enforcement tactics: "We'll let the punishment fit the crime...
...over the election defeat of Gerald Ford. He was upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...