Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without the exemption, alternative service would lose its drawing power. A man might spend two years in the Peace Corps and find, as sometimes happens now, that his draft board had classified him 1-A. There are in fact some 60 cases where a local board has tried to draft a man right out of the Peace Corps. Most of these cases have been appealed to state and federal branches of the Selective Service System...
...Abominably Dishonest." The danger was that Britain might lose control of the punishment. Now that the matter had been hauled to the U.N., the Afro-Asian nations were demanding far tougher measures against Rhodesia. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie called for troops to throw out the Smith regime. Zambian Foreign Minister Simon Kapwepwe took the floor of the Security Council to rage that Britain was "abominably dishonest, wicked, hypocritical and racist." He demanded a total economic blockade against Rhodesia and any nation that dared trade with...
...Prentice-Hall 449, Holt, Rinehart & Winston 345 and Random House 421. They all print text-and reference books, as well as children's books, which are dependable moneymakers. Their profitable textbook and paperback operations enable them to gamble on adult trade books-which as a rule lose money. Random House President Robert Bernstein estimates that 60% of adult trade books end up in the red, another 36% break even, and only 4% turn a decent profit...
...hoping Harwood has finally come of age," Barnaby said. "My bottom three have all been gaining in maturity rapidly. If they lose their early jitters, we're going to be one heck of a good team...
...attempt to add topics of special interest to the "core" course material, these reforms are valuable. But there is a danger that special topics will replace, rather than supplement this core, and that some of the split courses will acquire a heavily pre-med or pre-bio accent and lose their rigor...