Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have only one means of gaining that understanding: a review of past events . . . Communist goals are expansionistic . . . and each new conquest ... is detrimental to the net balance of power. It follows that there is some point beyond which the balance lies in Communist hands . . . Unless we are willing to lose this balance, there can be no better time to draw the line than...
...workers laid off. Bill Allen remembered the grim joke North American's James H. ("Dutch") Kindelberger once told him on the boom-or-bust character of the industry: "If I stub my toe and fall while running to lay off people, we're liable to lose our shirts." Strikes & Stratocruisers. Allen tightened his lips, set out to see what he could salvage. He hardly looked like the man for the job, acted even less like it. He appeared shy and unsure, talked in stiff lawyerese, had little technical knowledge about engines or air frames. Yet he had three...
...safe capital, but it is like any place-the jungle." More bent on escape than combat, Kristina runs into an old flame, Jas Ostrowski. A few glasses of vodka make Jas talkative. "Now, the good girls differ only in one respect from the bad ones," he says. "You lose a tremendous amount of time on them." Kristina is ready and eager to make up for lost time when her long-gone husband shows up with the same idea. By novel's end. Author Orme shapes this triangle into a shiny, new wedding band for Kristina. Catty, intimate, high-pitched...
...cities of offshore oil grow out into the Gulf, they will tend to lose social contact with the distant shore. This is a serious morale problem, and the oil com panies are worried about it. One answer might be airplane or helicopter service to fly the men to their jobs; already some of the rigs have heliports on them...
...offered to reopen the mines if the United Mine Workers' locals would agree to "work harder, produce more." Since there are almost no other jobs in the valley, five locals voted to go back to work. The Tamaqua local refused, saying 250 of its 800 members would lose their jobs. Tamaqua pickets kept the mines closed, even though...