Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of over two hundred citizens interested in good government. Though supported to a large extent by Republicans, the NBC is endorsing this year only one member from that party. Oakes, the only NBC-supported candidate to lose in the primary, was also a Republican--qualified for office but still a Republican. Boston voters would have none of this. For the NBC, then, candidate stands on individual issues outweigh party labels...
...power to pressure Councillors most of whom held trucking contracts with the city for snow removal or refuse collection. One mayor was known to call up a majority of the 15 Councillors before a Council session and warn them that unless they voted for a specific measure, they would lose their lucrative contracts. They generally agreed with his point of view...
...reform government in Cambridge nearly failed because the Cambridge Committee for Plan E began to lose prestige and power by taking a virtual "holier-than-thou" attitude. The Cambridge Civic Association was founded then and since that time the City Council has been CCA dominated...
George Witte, a senior council member who proposed the motion, told the council that Rutgers had everything to gain and nothing to lose by such a petition...
...just this insistence on conformity that immigrant scientists like Einstein and Fermi, men largely responsible for building the atomic bomb, came here to escape. In alienating foreign scientists, then, America may lose this fertile source of scientific excellence. Moreover, as scholars find greater respect in Europe than here, this policy is politically unsound...