Word: lose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ryan said a conviction would alert people thatcopyrights do not lose their legal force justbecause software is accessible over the network...
Indonesia says it will abide by the outcome of Monday?s U.N.-supervised independence referendum in East Timor, but the anti-independence militias nurtured by elements in the Indonesian army appear to have no such intentions. Having vowed to wage a guerrilla war if they lose the referendum, the militias on Tuesday continued attacking election officials and independence activists, and stopped pro-independence voters from leaving the territory. Unhindered by Indonesian police, thugs with guns and machetes simply marched into the airport at Dili, East Timor's capital, seized tickets and ordered those they deemed pro-independence...
...have had to investigate this case and of the further delays the exhumation will pose for his $2 million suit for the wrongful imprisonment of his father. But after a 10-year fight to clear his father?s name, Sheppard and his lawyer figure they?ve got little to lose. Said attorney Terry Gilbert: "We feel it's going to confirm our case or not determine much of anything, frankly...
...picked up women on the bus, talked about getting remarried (always to someone in her 30s or 40s, I noticed), confided details of his marital life that I really didn't want to know. It was as if his internal censor had gone to sleep. And he began to lose his mind. He was convinced that city workmen were partying at night in his bathroom, that preachers were stepping out of the TV to say prayers with him in person, that a child had fallen behind the bed and was crying...
...Kosovo is a failure, it?ll be the international body?s fault. On a whirlwind tour of the troubled province Monday, Holbrooke warned that Kosovo would be "the ultimate test of the U.N.?s capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning the peace in Kosovo remains the ethnic violence that has continued unabated despite the presence of the NATO-led peacekeeping force...