Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's bedroom is no one's business but his. It skipped right past the problem that the conduct he admitted to occurred not in his bedroom but off the Oval Office, with a junior employee, an act disgraceful enough that any manager in any other job would lose...
Whether or not Hatch would have told Starr to shut down his investigation or urged Republicans to cease talk of impeachment if Clinton had followed his instruction, it was too late by speech time. The President had little left to lose. By being forced to testify, he'd given up just about everything. He'd raised the white flag on the Truman balcony, opened the gates to the enemy. Starr and his deputies invaded his house for six hours, asking graphic questions about extramarital sex while his daughter was in her room upstairs. Not only had Starr forced Clinton...
...noted with interest the number of cards Starr is holding--nine [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 10]. Unless he is playing some crazy wild-card game, unlikely in high-stakes poker, he has way too many cards. In real life, he would lose the hand and perhaps even be banished from the game! Is this an omen? ROBERT P. CLIFFORD Palos Verdes, Calif...
...handle will give you something too," he notes, especially on the serve. (The higher up your serve starts, the better angle it has into the service box.) He's more dubious about the new ultralight titanium racquets. Although a lighter racquet is easier to maneuver, many players lose control when the thing collides with a heavy topspin shot...
Bodies grown for spare parts? Cloning NBA champs? Whoever is thinking about doing these things has got to be kidding! If this happens, human beings will ultimately lose their originality. After reading your article, I was relieved to know that cloned humans would not be exactly the same as their parents because, as you wrote, genetics can only partly determine who we are. NABEEL KEBLAWI Vienna...