Word: losee
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...Frieda Rosemarie Thalheim, the Munich dentist who filed the complaint, said the law infringes on her personal rights. She wanted to prefix her name to that of her husband, the lawyer Hans-Peter Kunz-Hallstein. Thalheim's lawyer argued that Thalheim and her husband did not want to lose the good professional reputations associated with their old names, for fear it could be harmful to their careers. Thalheim also wanted to keep her old name to stress her connection with her children from her first marriage, while at the same time demonstrating unity with her second husband. (See pictures...
...even if the outright decline in economic activity - a.k.a. the recession - ends later this year, we won't exactly be out of the woods. "We are so focused on whether recovery will be at the end of this year or the beginning of the next that we lose sight of the more important question," said Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of bond-investing giant Pimco, at a conference in Los Angeles last week. "It's not whether the recession will be over; it's what does the new normal look like...
...brand of security is as much about control as it is about safety. This sort of conflation serves as a good metaphor for the action in Amidon’s novel. Each inhabitant of Amidon’s sleepy college town is in the process of losing agency over his or her own life, and is desperate to regain it: Kathryn, the town’s musician-turned-music teacher, feels that she is slowly losing touch with her son Conor but doesn’t know how to help him; Walt Steckl, the town’s loitering electrician...
...very small,” he added. But if one were to pass too close to our solar system, it would likely “disturb the movement of the inner planets,” including Earth, according to Loeb. But for now, no one should lose sleep over these rogue black holes lurking among the peripheral stars of our galaxy...
...also make sacrifices. Perhaps every House does not need a $500 grant from the College Events Board for a Yardfest pregame. While it would be disappointing if the Office of Residential Life no longer funded decorations for House Committee events, it would be more devastating to see clerical workers lose their jobs. These trade-offs abound at an institution like Harvard. Luckily, we can still have fun without spending upwards of $10,000 on a House formal...