Word: lose
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...Oliva says her mother Marie Espinoza, who was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, had bruises, bedsores and a broken pelvis within months after her 1995 arrival at the Orangetree Convalescent Hospital. Food was often left at the foot of her bed, out of her reach. She began to lose weight. "She always seemed to be starving or begging for water," says Oliva in her official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said she died after choking on food, but Oliva plans to tell...
Retreats have a particular rhythm. Visitors who choose to follow the bells chiming out the call to offices, or services, start with Lauds at 2:25 in the morning and end with Compline at 7 in the evening. Many say night and day lose their meaning as they enter monkish time. "I come screaming in off the runway," says Joyce Bock, a Santa Barbara, Calif., marriage counselor. "This cools my jets." Most monasteries either ask for complete quiet or at least have silent hours. The idea is that in silence one can't hide from one's problems, or from...
...reward for Antioco may be to lose his job. Blockbuster's past mishaps have wounded Viacom so deeply that the video giant is all but certain to get cut loose. Last week, underscoring that point, Viacom announced a $437 million charge to write down Blockbuster's old inventory. But the charge also clears the way for better results ahead. Redstone, who will release Viacom's second-quarter results this week, says Blockbuster's improvement should start to boost the parent company's earnings this quarter...
...Bill Clinton's chief bodyguard, Larry Cockell, the special agent in charge of the presidential-protection division, took himself off the job last week after Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that Ken Starr could interrogate Cockell about what he has seen and heard at Clinton's side. Cockell could lose the SAIC job forever because putting him back on after all the publicity over his subpoena could be too disruptive to his sensitive assignment...
...poll, commissioned the Republican Leadership Council, indicates that the GOP's sensible silent -- the fiscally conservative but socially hands-off moderates -- had better get their turn at the mic if the party expects to win elections. "If Republicans focus on moral issues there is a real chance we will lose the House of Representatives," poll taker Kieran Mahoney told reporters Monday...