Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explicit. "Do not ask us for what we cannot give you," he had told West Germany's Konrad Adenauer. "We cannot give you unification, and we cannot do anything to help NATO." The Russians were vividly aware that, under any unification terms the West would accept, they would lose the part of Germany they now hold. "How could we explain to our people the presence of a defeated Communist government-in-exile in Moscow?" asked Khrushchev of his visitor...
...unrealistic to bring about the unification of Germany through a mechanical merger . . . at the expense of the social achievements of the working people of the German democratic republic."-We are not going to expose the East German Communists to the embarrass ment of free elections. We know they would lose...
Gamble Or Lose Out. Eight years ago the company was in quite another spot. Though old (founded in 1875) and respected, conservative Conoco was in danger of being left far behind by its competitors. While other companies snapped up leases and bought options, Conoco refused to part with good money unless it could be sure. Since oil is usually a case of gamble or get left out, Conoco was being left out. To get fresh leadership, the directors hired McCollum, then 45 and production coordinator of giant Jersey Standard, gave him a fat stock option (which today shows a paper...
...Crimson must win this morning if it is to retain a chance of overtaking Yale and Pennsylvania in the Ivy League. The team has already lost once in the League, and there is no likelihood, excluding the Crimson-Eli encounter, that either Yale or Penn will lose another game. CURRENT IVY LEAGUE STANDINGS Yale 3-0 Dartmouth 2-3 Penn 4-1 Cornell 0-2 Harvard 2-1 Brown 0-4 Princeton...
...church. Despite this evolution, its original seriousness of purpose reappears in modern guise. Book publishing began in Boston as an expression of this curiosity, but spiraling production costs have since forced the editor to tailor his product to financial considerations. Seldom will he issue what he knows will lose money; he would prefer to throw his resources behind a book with one virtue--that people will...