Word: losed
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WHILE the process of choosing successors must be watched carefully, it's important not to lose sight of a more significant issue: University governance. Right now, the Corporation has the sole power to choose its own members, without having to consult alumni, students or faculty. It's time the University opened up its selection process, so the Corporation "is not just a completely closed, self-reproducing committee," as Overseer Peter H. Wood '53-54 said last week...
Mulroney had just emerged from the most emotional and vituperative election campaign in Canadian memory -- a battle that at one point it seemed he might lose. Mulroney's Conservatives were returned to power, taking 169 seats in the 295-seat House of Commons. The opposition Liberals, led by former Prime Minister John Turner, 59, won 83 seats, while the New Democrats, under Edward Broadbent, 52, gained...
Amid the brawl for his company, Johnson has remained aloof from most outsiders and workers at RJR Nabisco headquarters in the elegant Galleria complex north of Atlanta. "We don't know what is going on," says an employee. "Some of us are going to lose our jobs, but we don't know who, or where." Feelings of helplessness were hardly confined to the South. Said a 15-year employee at an RJR Nabisco cookie plant in Fair Lawn, N.J.: "When you're at the bottom of the ladder and you got money men at the top, you take...
...dissent on the constitutional package. While Vadim Medvedev, party secretary for ideology, visited factories in Latvia, and Politburo member Nikolai Slyunkov engaged in street debates in Lithuania, former KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov confronted the restive Estonians. "You can achieve sovereignty," he warned during a factory visit, "but you can lose everything else...
...going to lose more games this year, but we can't react to that, expecting to win as much and as easily as we did last year," Delaney Smith said. "We're going to take our lumps in December, but hopefully everything will be in place in time for the start of the Ivy schedule...