Word: losely
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Regrettably, a professional armed service does not provide a simple solution to the problem. Each year 500,000 men are inducted into the military. One hundred thousand are drafted the others enlist. If the draft were abolished, the services would lose not only the 100,000 draftees, but also most of the other 400,000. As the above mentioned dropout figures suggest, nine out of ten men enlist because of the threat of the draft. Once free of that threat, they show little eagerness to stay in uniform...
...Green Bay plays Los Angeles Saturday, and that's on TV, too (channel 5,4 p.m.). If the Packers win and the Chicago Bears lose on Sunday, Green Bay wins the N.F.L. Western Division...
...customer went bankrupt, leaving the firm with debts that by week's end had mounted to more than $24 million (TIME, Nov. 29). In so doing, Wall Street set a precedent of considerable importance: while it takes no more responsibility than it ever did for a customer who loses money on his own, it decided that the Exchange cannot allow him to lose through the peccadilloes or mistakes of a member firm...
...terms, the issue was one which many other industries must confront in seeking automation. What should become of the men displaced by machines? Because of the change from steam to diesel engines, management contends that firemen are no longer needed. By employing these and other unnecessary men the railroads lose $600 million annually. Beset with competition from barges, trucks, and pipelines, management believes that the railroads cannot sustain these costs and survive. The unions, in opposing plans to eliminate the alleged waste of manpower, voice their concern for the welfare of their members...
...crisp voice is still," said the Boston Globe in a particularly moving elegy. "The vigor is no more. The last frontier has been passed. A grief inexpressible in words fills the heart of this nation today." The London Daily Mail mourned "a man the world could not afford to lose"; Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail pronounced Kennedy "one of the greatest leaders of modern times...