Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although it's tough to lose in the first night and come back to win the second, we are always upset when we split," said junior defenseman Ben Storey...
...From a business point of view, the studio may feel they'd be liable to lose more of the audience than gain them. O.J. has moved into a different niche...
...more serious problem is president Clinton's failure so far to obtain fast-track authority to negotiate multilateral trade deals. Because he knew he would lose, the President asked the House to postpone a scheduled November vote on that authority, which would have enabled him to strike trade bargains that Congress could accept or reject but not amend...
...augment, for example, the music budget. Paramount declined. "They never helped the movie," Mechanic says. "Anytime something could have made things better, it was 'That's your problem.' " Stymied, Fox offered to give Paramount its money back and take over. Paramount didn't take the offer seriously. Rather than lose scenes he deemed essential, Cameron gave up his fees in bits. He relinquished some, for example, to pay for Oscar winner Kathy Bates to play the "unsinkable" Molly Brown. Eventually he gave up his profit participation as well (but kept his scriptwriting...
...late '40s to the early '50s was essentially abstract, though with strong overtones of landscape space and color. A considerable influence of Willem de Kooning bore on it. De Kooning, Diebenkorn felt, "had it all, could outpaint anybody, at least until the mid-'60s, when he began to lose it." But Diebenkorn's friendship with the Bay Area painter David Park, who bravely refused to accept the reigning dictum in the American avant-garde that radicalism had to mean abstraction, pointed him still closer toward the figurative...