Word: lose
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...these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...
...that 60 percent of respondents favored brand-name fast food there, the writers frame a battle between "hungry Harvardians" who have "resigned themselves to McDeprivation" and the Harvard Square Defense Fund-the mere mention of which "is enough to make a potential Square developer, landowner and McDonald's franchisee lose the Big Macs they ate for lunch...
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...influential "friend and adviser," a glamorous California conservative commentator named Susan Carpenter-McMillan, rejected an apparent offer of $700,000 and a vaguely worded statement from Clinton that Jones did nothing improper. While it's not clear at all that Jones can win, the President has even more to lose, in standing and reputation, if the case proceeds to a jury. A trial would offer the spectacle of the Commander in Chief answering allegations that, as Governor of Arkansas, he called Jones, then a 24-year-old state employee, into a Little Rock hotel room, dropped his pants and asked...
...seem well worth paying for. "We don't really care about the technology," Case explains. "We've tried to recognize that it is a means to an end, and the end is to improve the way people get information and communicate." While Case is worried that the service will lose some of the more technically sophisticated members it has acquired from CompuServe, he hopes a customer-friendly outlook will induce many to stay...