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Word: lose (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest U.S. military contractor, reported a loss of $48 million during the same period. If Cheney sells his plan to end production of the company's AH-64 Apache helicopter in 1991, as many as 4,000 McDonnell Douglas workers in Mesa, Ariz., and Culver City, Calif., could lose their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Era of Limits | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

...L.D.P. will be banished to the back benches. To avert that prospect, warns L.D.P. legislator Shirakawa, "we need to find the reasons for our losses and then show the people that we have corrected them." That is a tall order to fill, and the L.D.P. has no time to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan A Mountain Moves | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

While Dukakis was delivering that speech, I liked him as a person for the first time, and I didn't think there was any way the Duke could lose...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Does Anyone in Massachusetts Feel Sorry for the Duke? | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

There is no room in the American credo for losers. This is a country of hard-working achievers, the logic goes. So, if you lose in anything, it must be because of a deficiency in your character or a lack of dedication...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Does Anyone in Massachusetts Feel Sorry for the Duke? | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

...ever cross the mind of the people who run Israeli intelligence that something might go wrong? We have to believe yes. Is it too much then to ask whether, upon discovering possible faults in its plan, Israel knew that it was in a no-lose situation...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: How Could Israel Not Know? | 8/4/1989 | See Source »

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