Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year's ago I would have been tentative in that situation, but I felt like I had nothing to lose so I relaxed and went for it," Blake said. "I just wanted to play my game and not to try to change on match point, and I came up with a solid shot. Then I loosened up and played well...
...Daschle, 51, is being magnanimous these days, it's only because he wants to help Trent Lott find a dignified way to end the proceedings. He knows that Lott wants it to be over but that he will lose part of his caucus if he tries to end it too fast. "This plane has two co-pilots, and I'm going to try to help him land it safely," Daschle told TIME...
...Reporter. Would Madonna make the leap? (Maybe, maybe not.) Would Spielberg? (Absolutely not, he said, since CAA packaged his hit Saving Private Ryan.) But of the seven who got the ultimatum, director Martin Scorsese and actors Marisa Tomei and Mimi Rogers have joined the Ovitz roster. CAA may yet lose the four others--director Sydney Pollack and actors Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Lauren Holly--to Ovitz...
...probably not spend the money. Credit cards compound the problem by making impulse buys less painful. Forneris' sin was giving away his valuable baseball the day he caught it. McGwire would have been just as pleased to get it the next day, or even the next week. You lose nothing by taking time to think. "The smartest thing the guy who caught No. 70 did was go home with the ball that night," says Michael Barnes, a St. Louis, Mo., agent who represented the seller. "There's a good chance that had McGwire looked for my client that night...
...investing, there's comfort in buying what everyone else buys. But fads fade, and it's the last people in who lose big. I'm not saying that the Internet bubble has burst. But if you paid $199 a share for Amazon.com on Jan. 8, you know what I mean. If you didn't, here's a hint: last week the stock ended at $117. Forneris surely was influenced by herd thinking. In the weeks before McGwire's famous swat there was a groundswell of local opinion that home-run balls should be returned. "Fans who kept the balls were...