Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pick up a copy and look it over, and it isn't long before I'm ready to, as they say, make a wager. In fact--in the interest of diversifying my gambling portfolio--I place a pair of bets on the fourth race. But all of my horses lose miserably...
...Steele's affidavit undermines Willey's testimony, it becomes just one more reason the White House may be wanting a trial and the Jones camp may be looking for a deal. At this point, some aides argue, Clinton has little more to lose; the damage to his reputation has been done, and if the jury rules against him, he can blame the poisonous atmosphere around Kenneth Starr's investigation. If he were to win, he could spin the victory into a vindication against all accusations against...
Then there are the worrying and very tangible costs the U.S. will have to pay if it bombs Iraq. Because many of the key targets in urban areas and elsewhere will be packed with "human shields," the attacks will kill civilians, including women and children. Saddam will lose no time laying out their bodies for the world's press to photograph. The Arab world is already disapproving, and could explode into anti-American demonstrations once the bloody corpses appear on television...
...Beth Burnside. "Everyone's just furious about it. It's not affecting his performance. C'mon, they're kicking people out for cough medicine." "It's too bad," says American pro snowboarder Adam Merriman. "Pot doesn't make your muscles swell up--otherwise he'd have a reason to lose his gold. But marijuana just mellows you out. I don't understand why they busted him." Says Swiss halfpipe rider Anita Schwaller: "It's so ridiculous. It's not the riders who wanted to be in the Olympics; they wanted us." (Snowboarding is still banned in many elite ski resorts...
...labor in its assembly, puts the Northern Marianas on a par as an exporter with countries like Canada and Thailand. Competition from this territory has contributed to the loss of more than 100,000 U.S. apparel jobs over the past two years. And in 1998 the U.S. taxpayer will lose $250 million in revenue forgone on tariffs. How much longer can we afford to let the N.M.I. abuse its territorial status? JOHN M. SPRATT JR., U.S. Representative 5th District, South Carolina Washington...