Word: lose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Squash player extraordinaire Mike DeSaulniers: "I'll shave my beard off when I lose my next match...
...interest of the moderate Arab states--Jordan and Saudi Arabia-to try to work within it. It would also appear in the interest of the more radical Arab parties--specifically Syria, with its influence over the PLO--not to sabotage it. The Arabs have nothing to lose now, since with Egypt committed to a separate peace they cannot hope to confront Israel militarily for some time. And they may have everything to gain. For even if Israeli stalling or intransigence makes productive West Bank negotiations impossible, the Arab states will then have portrayed themselves to the world as the more...
...status of a management position and the greater salary that tags along. The related conflict between news and editorial writers and the men who work the presses is shown in the recent newspaper strikes. Newswriters are removed from the threat of mechanization and have much less to lose from recent technological innovations. They tend to side with management on this issue. This psychological victory for the owners and managers abets their desire to prevent news and editorial writers from seeking alternatives to news and editorial control...
...shame anyone had to lose," smoke-thrower Gossage said in the clubhouse afterward. "Getting the final two outs was a feeling you just can't put into words. It was the greatest feeling in my whole life...
...courses and even whole departments are fighting for their existence. At Riverside, where enrollment is down from 6,250 students in 1971 to 4,800, more than 40 teaching positions have been eliminated, most of them in the humanities. The anthropology department, which can support only eight teachers, may lose its Ph.D. program if one more department member has to be laid off. Faced with such conditions plus increasing student demands for more career-oriented courses, universities are turning to hardsell tactics. What Harvard Sociol ogist David Riesman has described as "the war of all, against all, for student body...