Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artillery. The task force failed to find the howitzers. Military observers believe that the insurgents are merely lying low, waiting for the government forces to withdraw before resuming the attacks. Said a Western military expert: "Neither side is strong enough to win, or weak enough to lose." A sure loser, however, will be once graceful and tranquil Phnom-Penh. With seven months remaining in the dry season, the capital faces a long, painful siege...
Cornell, sole owner of the Ivy cellar position and an 87-36 loser to Penn a week ago, hung on in the final half, though, repeatedly whittling the Harvard lead to 12 points to stave off the expected Crimson romp...
With only one veteran of the championship team returning to his 13-man roster, coach Tony Coma seemed stuck with another sure-fire loser for 1974. Then "championship" ambitions began to fall apart as Cornell picked up two victories in the last month...
...South, many Republicans agree that the best thing that could happen to them is for Nixon to leave of fice. After a special election for California's state senate last month, in which Assemblyman Jerry Lewis was upset by a Democrat in a normally conservative district, the loser's stunned campaign aide said bitterly: "We can't stand this any longer. Nixon has got to step down." The President's removal from the scene, says a G.O.P. campaign official, would "give the voters what they want even more than gas and oil, and that...
...come up with takers for at least 71 offices. Many of Walston's 4,000 employees will probably be retained by the new managements; customers, if they wish to, can pick up their holdings at Walston and follow their old broker to another firm. Just about the biggest loser will be Perot, who may recover as little as $10 million of his roughly $100 million investment...