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...Financially, the biggest calamity has been the soaring price of jet fuel brought on by the Arab oil offensive. Prices rose so high during the last quarter of 1973 that what had been expected to be Pan Am's first profitable year since 1969 turned into another big loser. Prospects for 1974 are so grim that Pan Am and Trans World Airlines, the other major U.S. international airline, have taken the unusual step of appealing to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to pool some overseas services and to the Congress for subsidies that could total $360 million...
...under way, a struggle which will determine whether the United States will continue to exist or not. But in essence the battle between the Democrats and Republicans is like a circus wrestling match. The wrestlers arrange in advance who will be the winner and who will be the loser-before they even enter the arena. Of course, I'm not saying that the outcome of an American election is actually prearranged by the two candidates, but they're both representatives of the capitalist circles which nominated them; and everyone knows that the foundation of capitalism will...
...rally failed as May stepped in to get the last three outs of the inning. Bill Lee was the loser for the Sox as he gave up two earned runs in the third and unearned runs in the fourth and ninth...
Danehy, a mayoral aspirant himself, was the big loser in that deal, and he hoped that rent control would cut into the coalition's unity. The four liberals on the coalition had all campaigned as strong supporters of the law, and the two independents, Sullivan and vice mayor Leonard Russell, were both on record opposing control...
...their information, the free flow of reporting that Lippmann described as essential to freedom of the press will be seriously impaired. A news source who can be identified can all too easily be "fired or discredited," in the immortal words of White House aide Patrick Buchanan. The ultimate loser is neither the newspaper nor the source, but the public. Information withheld is knowledge limited, and a public with limited knowledge is like a fireman with a limited water supply...