Word: lose
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...Crimson didn't just lose the game, though. The Huskies also beat them. Northeastern stayed pretty even in the first half, only down six at halftime, but the jump shot became their best friend in the second half. The Huskies shot 65.4 percent from the field in the second half. Guard Terry Kringe led all scorers with 19 points on 5-of-6 shooting from beyond the arc. Jean Bain scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half, including a sequence in the second half where he scored nine straight points to give Northeastern the lead...
...unification of the Croatian people was not Tudjman's greatest achievement, then it was his walk on the tight rope between freedom and destruction. He did not lose the former, nor suffer the latter...
Bradley isn't having quite so much fun. "Bill's getting angry," said an adviser. "We're in a bind--Gore wants us to sink down to his level, and we're not going to do that." But they did. Bradley was determined not to lose his aura of rarefied high-mindedness--he's sure it works for him--and so he responded to Gore fitfully, rebutting in his languid way ("We've reached a sad day...when a sitting Vice President distorts a fellow Democrat's record") and having his staff send out faxes and e-mails to correct...
...hearing, Tom Mauser was the only speaker who did not focus on the loss of his son. Instead, Mauser talked about guns. "I want you to consider," he told the courtroom, "that we lose an average of 13 young lives every day to gunshots. Every day. Every...
...paper method to avoid the multiple erasures that often indicate cheating; a few even changed answers after their students turned in the exams. The motive is not hard to discern. Teachers, particularly in the early grades, are increasingly being measured by the test scores of their students and can lose their jobs if student performance is too low and shows no sign of improvement...