Word: losely
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Externally, Tanganyika's reputation for stability was undoubtedly damaged. Foreign investors may lose confidence in the country, although such a loss would not be justified and should not be severe. And the fact remains that Tanganyika is embarrassed, though not apologetic, about having British troops in the country. It was for this reason that Nyerere called for the emergency meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, which opened in Dar es Salaam on Feb. 12, and which makes a proper concluding chapter to an account of the revolt...
Three hundred and fifty Harvard students crowded the IAB bleachers yesterday to see their friends and roommates draw blood and lose blood in the annual intramural boxing championship...
...easily bruised. Their resentment of female competition, he says, "might be fear of the embarrassment of being beaten by a woman in a toe-to-toe struggle. Men are the weaker sex in terms of pride. In medicine, everyone wants the same result. In the law, someone has to lose whenever a case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work, says Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Despite male objections that an attractive woman has an "unfair" advantage in the courtroom, Medina recalls a case where the court was so absorbed...
While the executive has much to gain from an option, the company has nothing to lose; it simply sets aside a parcel of its unissued shares-usually about 5% of the total stock-for its key men to pick up later. U.S. Steel limits its options to 300 top managers, and many other large companies give options only to vice presidents or chief executives. But General Electric spreads its 4,000,000 optioned shares among 1,555 employees, Westinghouse grants them to plant managers and research assistants, and Hewlett-Packard has even reserved some stock options for top salesmen...
...Convention, and James Cox was nominated. When Wilson heard the news, he burst into a stream of obscenities. Cox campaigned as an all-out backer of the League, but Wilson considered the League his personal possession and would do nothing to help Cox. He was sure Harding would lose. "You have no faith in the American people," he lectured a doubter on election day. "A great moral issue is involved." Harding won in the biggest landslide in 100 years...