Word: lose
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...maintain restrictions on the export of sophisticated encryption technology, it takes the position that the U.S. should not impose any new taxes on Web commerce, meaning transactions conducted on the Internet. The encryption provision irks software makers, who make 48 percent of their profits overseas, and fear they will lose market share to foreign competition. But other companies were pleased by Magaziner's recommendation that the government should not impose new taxes and regulations on the promising new realm of Web commerce, now running about $1 billion and projected at $5-$10 billion by 2000. State and local governments...
...during the past decade, knew to be true about the addictive and fatal nature of their product. By capitulating now, despite all its past success in defeating liability claims by victimized smokers, the industry is at least sparing the nation years of litigation that the companies were doomed to lose sooner or later and that might delay indefinitely the onset of vitally needed tobacco-control measures...
What we face in the new tobacco agreement, incomplete though it may be, is an instance of the "Stalingrad dilemma," a term coined from that brutal battle in which the armies of Hitler met the armies of Stalin. Any decent person wants both sides to lose...
...colleagues at the factory are too frightened or too indolent to follow suit. Shenyang is a warning to the government that it cannot easily trade in communism for completely laissez-faire capitalism. There is no national welfare system for workers like Liang. If they leave their work units, they lose their housing, health benefits, education subsidies, pension rights...
BRUTALITY. What they lose in personality, they make up in body count. In these sociopathic action films, the hero has a bad case of blood lust. The psychos, like the Steve Buscemi serial killer in Con Air, are comic, sympathetic sorts. And anyone who's not a major character is called for icing by Mr. Freeze, or blithely sideswiped by Speed 2's Bullock during the most deplorable driving-test scene in film history. Something is wrong with Hollywood if the answer to every story problem is a crash. Even the otherwise canny Disney cartoon Hercules...