Word: lose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the second round Friday night, the Crimson looked golden. No one had been eliminated yet. Harvard amazed itself. Knocking off 17 matches in a row, the team just forgot how to lose. So much that Harvard found itself in an unfamiliar position--second place...
...others. The generation of Czechoslovaks now coming of age did not experience the trauma of the invasion -- and the fear of provoking a new crackdown. Said Martin Mejstrik, a leader of the university strike: "Our parents are still frightened. We are also frightened sometimes, but we have less to lose...
...Lola Reid, a research biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Reid, who has a one-year-old daughter, advocates a separate pool of grant money for scientists who are in their peak years of child rearing. Otherwise, she says, "we're going to lose a highly trained population; they will simply drop out of the field...
...Gorbachev's regime. Yet Gorbachev apparently calculates that the movement will be safer aboveground and in contact with a Pope who preaches against political violence. The major reason that Gorbachev has not done more for the Ukrainian Catholics has been pressure from the Russian Orthodoxy, which stands to lose half its flock in some regions...
...crazy theorist once suggested that video games are a Communist plot to distract our young people from their studies so that the United States would lose its competitive edge...