Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe if flying saucers exist, we stand to lose a lot by not taking them seriously," he said
Clearly, this proposal is not currently mainstream, nor is there any indication that it is swimming thither. But we should not dismiss its prospective import, nor should we lose any time in pointing out its fundamental flaws. We should not react to undesirable trends in the rulings of the Supreme Court by advancing proposals which would undermine the basic fabric of American democracy. As Hamilton wrote, our Republic is and must be based on the conviction that "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts...
...with apologies to seniors Ashlin Halfnight, Joe Craigen and Marco Ferrari, if Harvard should lose, maybe it might be for the best in the long term. Harvard isn't a great team; it doesn't even seem to be a good one at the moment. And so much as one win tonight would paper over some cracks in the Crimson program which might be better healed by a full retooling...
Before this is over, we're all going to lose our shirts. You. Me. The cabbie talking about his mutual funds. The guy behind the deli counter reading Barron's. My "fully invested" barber. The suits on Wall Street. They can afford it. But oh, yes, they'll pay too. We're all floating on the same bubble...
...without exhilaration or despair. The beach dwellers fish, steal a little marijuana from an illicit plantation and work on their tans. Eventually, perhaps because everyone has read Lord of the Flies, things fall apart nastily. But even this calamity, which involves blood and dead people (the pot growers lose patience), does not touch the survivors. They grab sandals and rucksacks and move on. Richard reports all this a year later from London, where he is tethered to an unspecified job. His tone is one of mild regret, which seems to be the author's view as well, though that...