Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours and meet my friend at 3. Yeah, tell me about it. The NYC subways being the NYC subways, I got to Port Authority at 11:30, about 10 minutes before another bus (on a different bus line) was schedule to leave. Not too bad, I would only lose about a half-hour of imbibing the essence of Princeton...
...president faced by a hostile Assembly would have to fight (by dissolving it, or by resigning and running for reelection), at great risk to himself and to the institutions if he should lose. Or else he would have to compromise and accommodate himself to a vastly diminished role. This test has once again been postponed, thanks to the victory of President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's coalition of Gaullists under Jacques Chirac, and of pro-Giscard groups federated in a new party, the Union for French Democracy. After 20 years, the General's regime is still unshaken...
...dull and insistently predictable life of any suburban couple. At this point in his life (he is 64), Castle asks the bare minimum of life. And like most Greene heroes, he harbors the perpetual conviction that the less you expect from life the more you're likely to lose...
...ancient Chinese philosopher, wrote that the supreme art of war is to defeat the enemy without fighting. Soviet nuclear advantage could put us in the position of having to back down in a crisis because we might conclude that we would have nothing to gain and everything to lose...
...exchange for Marchais's backing of Socialist candidates in the runoff elections March 19, Mitterrand had agreed to reward the Communists with as many as half of the Cabinet ministries. At that time, Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille, issued a grave warning to Mitterrand: "Better to lose than give anything to the Communists." Taking a contrary position, the Socialist Party's left wing, which had criticized Mitterrand for not making more concessions to the Communists, refused last week to endorse a Socialist resolution condemning Marchais for "helping the right and postponing the hour of change...