Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President once exhorted the country to plunge headlong into global commerce and diplomacy, to "embrace this change and make it our friend." He scoffed that "yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow." He didn't appreciate then that most people find the future scary. As he said last week, "I've learned more, I think, about how to communicate with the American people, how to blend showing the connections of the present moment to the past and the enduring values of the country...
...Nearly everyone I talk to is spitting angry or near tears with grief. Or both," writes Susan Ager in Friday's Detroit Free Press. "No one can imagine how such a smart man, with so much to lose, could be such an idiot...
...Never mind that the IMF functions as a U.S.-driven-body that tends to open up foreign markets to U.S. companies. Here's an easy-to-understand reason to support it: The bailout would prop up Mom-and-Pop mutual funds which stand to lose millions in an Asian collapse...
Investors trip up in dozens of silly ways. They act on stock tips from their nitwit in-laws, send money to brokers they've never met, check their mutual-fund balances too often and lose patience too soon. But my guess is that this year's most popular gaffe will be the way investors categorize in their mind the past few years of robust U.S. stock gains. Some lost souls will view the spoils as perfectly normal and expect more of the same. God bless them. But even those with a sense of history may regard the period as merely...
...story Victorian house in Oak Park. But the bank foreclosed on their $341,000 mortgage, and they were forced to move to a modest bungalow in nearby Riverside. "I had a beautiful house," sighs Seed. "It's very difficult to make money but extremely easy to lose it. I lost a couple of million dollars...