Word: lose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional Democrats and their labor allies had repeatedly been thwarted in their attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...until late December, Minnesota hockey fans will be forced to endure their runner-up status. And as if it wasn't enough to lose the national championship game, Harvard alumni and students have been less than sympathetic...
Demographically, the reason we Democrats lose is easily explicable. Most Democrats are wealthy commuters who care more about New York City's mayoral race than about who's fixing their streets. The only people who come out to vote are the "townies," local merchants and government workers who depend on local patronage for their livelihood...
WITH a slate like this, you ask why we lose...
...Cambridge, if you disagree with one Democrat, another might win. On Long Island, if you disagree with one Republican, you lose...