Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inner lives--would be infinitely poorer: no Wuthering Heights, no Bringing Up Baby. On the other hand, to be strictly fair, had we been spared that thought we would also have been spared Abie's Irish Rose and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? You win some, you lose some...
Last week the feds stirred. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater said he may impose fines to stop predatory behavior by big airlines. "There is growing concern that the major carriers are willing to lose money--lots of it--in the short run to drive off competition," says Slater. The department must wait 60 days before clipping any wings, and clearly Slater hopes the majors will back off before he has to start. Meanwhile, the Justice Department has begun an investigation into possible anticompetitive practices...
...superior team, Harvard will have to guard against a letdown. However, the bottom line is that the Crimson is propelled by the knowledge that it can't afford to lose. The fun of beating Old Eli is only an added bonus...
...preconceived notion of whatshe should be. While Harlan scrambles to put inplace her own system of beliefs, she is roughlypassed through the world from hand to hand, eachfist attempting to squeeze her into a mold ofexpected identity. Her Grandmother and Mother wishher to be the good housewife, but lose her to thecorruptive North. Her husband wishes her to be hiscollaborator in digging up African roots but losesher to her native America. The wealthy Germanhorse breeder wishes her to be the dangerous spybut loses her to decency and self respect. Often,the people who wish to impose an identity upon heract...
...going to be all mental--physically they're going to be a rough team, but we can be rough too," freshman Alli Harper said. "It's perfect for us since we're in a no-lose situation. Princeton has all the pressure...