Word: lose
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...over yet. The district is expected to lose another 116 students--a full 2 percent--this year...
...many of the players on the American team have expressed, its one thing to lose a tournament and miss that paycheck. But it's quite another to see the Ryder Cup--a 27-inch gold chalice with a tradition that dates back to the famous 1927 match between the "Yanks" and the "Brits"--leave for foreign soil...
...want to go out there and lose," McEnroe insists. Yet he has lost frequently to Connors, who won 12 of the first 14 tour events, and to others in the mid-1990s. But he did manage to put some personal difficulties behind him; he improved his concentration, worked hard at getting back into condition and last year won the No. 1 ranking in senior tennis...
...ready for a spell of demagoguery. The question is both wrong and arrogant--Russia was never ours to lose--and the real issue is what to do now. But it's already a pundit's dream topic, since it's more fun to lay blame than confront facts and complexity. The "Who lost" phrase is custom cut for G.O.P. presidential contenders to score points against Democratic candidate Al Gore, tagging him as the front man in the Clinton Administration's "failed policy." Capitol Hill is aboil with hearings, beginning this week, aimed at flogging the Administration for everything that...
Indeed, her bipartisan tone leads one former Bush official to note that Rice could have ended up working for a Democratic administration. But Rice would rather see her beloved Stanford football team lose than work for a Democrat. By both upbringing and philosophy, she is a committed Republican realist in the tradition of Kissinger, Scowcroft and Colin Powell. Rice's father, a university administrator, joined the G.O.P. in 1952, at a time when Dixiecrats still ruled the South. In 1960 the six-year-old Rice went into a voting booth and instructed her mother to "pull the elephant." Her mother...