Word: lose
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...near zero before requesting a grant from the communal ante that it controls. Now, organizations with healthy financial records which act in the student interest are eligible to apply. Ethnic groups like the Black Students Association (BSA), Asian American Association and the Minority Students Alliance, which used to lose out to less financially viable organizations, will benefit most...
...expend our resources trying to squeeze every last drop of privilege out of Harvard, we lose a chance to effect real change of a much more important sort. Like it or not, as Harvard students we have a certain amount of power. People listen when Harvard speaks, even if it doesn't have much to say. If we squander our energy working for ourselves, we lose this voice, a voice with the potential to help people in genuinely grave situations. The underprivileged of the Boston area, human rights abuses worldwide, the environment--these are all worthy pursuits for students seeking...
Maintain your commitment to reinvent government. Local governments have to be innovative to balance their budgets. The Federal Government must do the same. Don't lose sight of what helped you be successful in the first four years--creating partnerships with mayors and county officials. We're closest to the people...
...that wasn't bad enough, to lose to Brown of all teams was like pouring lemon juice on the open wound...
Almost all of the lawyers who work with the ACLU, including Strossen herself, are volunteers. She joked: "I just want to make it clear [that] when we lose cases, it is not because of bad lawyers, but because of bad judging," eliciting laughter from the audience...