Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand here and say if we will not make these changes we will lose this system," he said...
...explosion of information about colleges through the media of videos, guidebooks, the internet and college recruitment materials, fueled by increasing interest on the part of the news media, has made students, their families and their counselors better informed than ever before. Without an "early" program, Harvard and Radcliffe would lose by default many of the best students to other institutions that are able to capitalize on the national demand for early programs...
These more leisurely activities not only can't go on a resume, but they don't even add anything to our personal lives. They won't give us things to say at a job interview or enrich our aesthetic repertoire or help us lose weight. They're just fun. But more often than not, when we sit down with a trashy novel or an old magazine, our enjoyment is accompanied by an unmistakable sense of guilt. We aren't having fun--we're "procrastinating." We're "wasting time." There is no such thing as free time anymore: not because...
...what promised to be an emotional evening, win or lose, Andrade wouldn't let the occasion be spoiled, just like she didn't last season...
...lawyers," he says, but the money actually pays for Jones' expenses, including her makeover and clothes (more than $4,000), phone bills and savings for the $800,000 lien held by her previous attorneys. Whitehead, who took the case to raise his institute's profile, expects to lose money on Jones. Rutherford has written letters of protest to the fund and to Bruce Eberle, a direct-mail fund raiser working for the fund...