Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next part of the picture is apparently intended to suggest that a businessman's profit is apt to be without honor, especially in another country; that it is, in effect, bad diplomacy and even worse business to make a dollar and lose a friend. Perhaps no one will argue the point, but every American is entitled to resent the way the point is made. Scriptwriter Robert Ardrey, who worked from the novel by Howard Swiggett, unfortunately felt obliged to revive an ancient canard that has been a dead duck for a long time. Americans, the script suggests, are rich...
...Nixon's well-planned appearance in western Massachusetts last week showed, it is virtually inconceivable that the Republicans could ever lose a campaign train. But that is just what happened last Wednesday in Sunbury, Pa., to Stevenson's special train with the private car that carried Woodrow Wilson to victory in 1912. Stevenson's party had left the train and arranged to meet it in Sunbury, but the engineer was delayed half an hour while Adlai wanted around the station. And every day, reporters said, their buses were severed from the candidate's open car cavalcade. On Saturday, the buses...
...computing machines will determine the orbit, and tracking will then be carried out by a dozen or so photographic stations. When the satellite begins to lose altitude, it will be moving so unpredictably that visual observers must once more assume tracking operations...
...body as a whole is pulled by the earth's gravitation, but the parts of his body feel weightless. In the same way a person in a rapidly descending elevator feels his stomach rise. Actually it does rise: the elevator's fall has made the stomach lose weight, and the elastic tissues that support it have pulled it upward. When the elevator stops descending, gravity resumes control. The stomach regains its weight and settles back into place...
...ships, thus acquired experience which enabled it to bid about 6% lower on the second job than on the first. It is, moreover, traditionally the industry's shrewdest bidder. Nevertheless, Wolfson underbid Newport News by $6,000,000-$7,000,000. At that price, experts estimate, Wolfson will lose money. In addition, Wolfson's firm must now invest an estimated $8 million to $10 million in a graving dock just to begin building the sea giant...