Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power has come fully and prophetically true. Advances in abstract scientific theory can promise or threaten next year's breakthroughs in the technology of national power. And on the sidelines of the science-technology race, the backward nations, eager for progress and wary of winding up in the loser's camp, watch intently to see how Russia fares in competition with the West...
...represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free world. In many nations, the pattern of economic development is being shaped for a century ahead. If this pattern is statist, then human freedom will be the loser...
Scramble. The problems are compounded because only one of the many experimental pay systems is likely to survive, and stations that bet on a loser will suffer. New systems are coming out all the time. Solomon Sagall, a founder of Britain's TV-pioneering Scophony, Ltd., last week filed to patent a system that will send a clear picture but add sound only when a subscriber flicks a switch. Says Sagall: "The picture teases...
...losers have all been banished to the sticks. That old Kremlin durable, Molotov, presented his credentials as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia last week, obviously aware that the world was enjoying his humiliation. But he was probably more concerned by the knowledge that another loser before him, Lev Kamenev, had for a time seemingly flourished as Soviet Ambassador to Italy, only to be executed a few years later by Stalin. Among Khrushchev's other victims, Dmitry Shepilov, who rose swiftly but guessed wrong, was reportedly schoolteaching; Kaganovich was said to be running a cement factory...
Safety Record. In Beverly Hills, Calif., after police nabbed Napoleon Lafayette Baulch when he jumped a red light, discovered that he had stolen the car, was a two-term loser for burglary and forgery, was sought for passing $12,000 worth of bad checks, he lamented his capture, said he usually traveled by air because airlines "take bum checks...