Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responding to yesterday's front page article in The Boston Globe which alleged that Radcliffe may lose its titular claim to undergraduate women, University officials said they can "neither confirm nor deny" impending changes...
...tutorial system at Harvard is a truly wonderful resource. But, it means that students need to start soon. If not, they lose a year," he says...
...relieved to read Andrew Ferguson's piece on road rage and how automobile drivers lose control and act out behind the wheel [SOCIETY, Jan. 12]. He couldn't have better summarized the state of mind of the average driver. It is all because of the never ending stress of everyday life. Jobs are getting more competitive, and life-styles are changing. Scary, but it's what is happening. Driving like idiots is just one way of expressing it! ADNAN SHAIKH ALI Karachi...
...Western eyes, it seemed inconceivable that Ho would make the tremendous sacrifices he did. But in 1946, as war with the French loomed, he cautioned them, "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." The French, convinced of their superiority, ignored his warning and suffered grievously as a result. Senior American officers similarly nurtured the illusion that their sophisticated weapons would inevitably break enemy morale. But, as Ho's brilliant commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, told me in Hanoi...
...Heath for the Tory leadership simply because the candidate of the party's right wing abandoned the contest at the last minute. Thatcher stepped into the breach. When she went into Heath's office to tell him her decision, he did not even bother to look up. "You'll lose," he said. "Good...