Word: loses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard chose to risk the financial lose, seeking to minimize it by such palliatives as scheduling weak, obscure opponents, and hoping for athletic plant endowment. The expedients have not been effective, for the schedule's core has necessarily remained a number of Ivy League colleges which, like Yale, talked much about deemphasis while doing the opposite, and the endowment has been meager. So long as this situation continues, Harvard's alternatives become buying teams versus dropping the sport altogether...
...lowering tariffs gradually in many areas, on the other hand, we could permit foreign products to compete with American on nearly even terms, until our imports would equal our exports; thus, the need for U.S. economic aid would diminish. Few workers would lose their jobs, for those in more prosperous foreign plants could buy more merchandise, and even the workers who were displaced could work in the healthier export industry...
...raise Raboski's $15,000 bail, drafted a clemency appeal to California's Governor Earl Warren. "We plan to do everything we can to stand back of him," said the Rev. Milan Swasko, pastor of the local Lutheran church. "This community can't afford to lose...
...Chicago's Roman Catholic archdiocese, accepting "as a great privilege" the invitation of John L. Lewis to appear on a C.I.O. platform in the stockyard district. "I want you to remember, Your Excellency," said the banker, a Catholic layman, "that the minute you step on that platform, you lose your chance to become archbishop...
...statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell how they should be doing (Californians are the biggest spenders, New Englanders the smallest). When one game starts to lose favor with Harold's clientele, it is moved to a more advantageous spot in the building; when a dealer's take varies too much from the norm, he is immediately investigated...