Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...describe the significance of racial obstacles. Nowhere does she explain what methods, if any, Nikki uses to overcome imposed hardships. Thomas-Graham has highlighted a valid problem worthy of further discussion, but, without initiating that discussion, the book's treatment of this problem becomes so diluted as to lose significance. In short, race becomes a subject about which characters can bitch and moan, but not one that the reader can take seriously, regardless of the author's attempts...
...Whether that will translate into support for Deborah and Sunil Eappen's wrongful death lawsuit is unlikely. That case opens October 5. Louise is not compelled to attend, nor will any financial penalty be enforceable in England. And unlike O.J., she won't have any millions to lose: The only interview Louise is doing is a freebie for the BBC. Chances are the first-class treatment ends here...
...stance. GM is fast running out of parts to supply its assembly lines nationwide, and conservative estimates put the company's losses at $50 million a day. The workers stand to take a big financial hit themselves; if they do not return to work by June 26, they lose a week's worth of union-won "holiday pay" for the first half of GM's annual two-week plant shutdown, which begins June...
...company as it is currently configured would have posted net income of only $6.9 million, and that includes a one-time shot of $9.3 million from league-expansion proceeds and income from 18 of a potential 19 postseason games. When the team eventually stops winning, it could easily lose $10 million a year...
...next step won't come until after President Boris Yeltsin's Thursday meeting with Milosevic, where he'll try and persuade Russia's traditional ally to back down. "The U.S. believes it has nothing to lose by giving Yeltsin's initiative a chance," says Fischer, "but they're not optimistic about his prospects -- past experience has shown that Milosevic doesn't change course unless he feels the heat." If the West manages to muster the political will to use force over and above Russian objections, NATO's task won't be easy: "NATO can do considerable damage to the Yugoslavian...