Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After trying unsuccessfully to sell the "package," CBS in September offered the five telecasts to its affiliated stations. If these stations could manage to get their own sponsors, CBS would receive part of the fee; if not, both the station and the network would lose whatever it cost them to produce the program. In many cases both parties took the loss. In Boston, however, CBS-affiliated WNAC-TV, after waiting through the network's prolonged search for a regional sponsor, looked for one of its own, ran up against the same commercial objections as had thwarted CBS, and finally decided...
...objective: to pick up some California support for Averell Harriman's effort to get the Democratic presidential nomination. The Tammany leader knew that the California Democrats were for Kefauver in 1952 and that most of the leaders are now for Stevenson. But what, he reasoned, could he lose by a little quiet hotel-room politicking...
...requires a real planner to conceive and carry out such a day; modern farming is no job for the amateur, the incompetent, the haphazard or the lazy. Today's farmer must invest in tractors and other expensive labor-saving equipment. A poor manager has too much to lose and too many ways to lose...
...learn how to give and take in anything he tries. Here in the F.F.A. there are a lot of awards offered, with thousands of boys all trying to win them. We don't always get what we're aiming for, but we learn how to win and lose in the right way. By inspiring the boy, like the F.F.A. does, it helps him to take better care of what God has given the American people...
...fear the police as much as the criminals, because he knows that his family would be the first to die in a battle. And he cannot quite trust his family-a wife, a ten-age daughter, and a ten-year-old son-because they all demonstrate that they would lose their heads if he were not around. In the end, he emerges as close to a real hero as any figure in modern drama...