Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coal areas: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Senator Randolph Jennings of West Virginia and Representative Carl Perkins of Kentucky. Support for seizure of the mines seemed shaky. It would be unpalatable to the operators, who had already given way under presidential pressure on the new contract, and might lose still more if the Government ran the mines. While the profits would still go to the owners, wages and work rules would be set by the Government. The takeover, however, would have the grudging approval of the miners, who figure they could get a better contract from the White House...
...pilots who glide at Point Fermin launch themselves by running down the gentle slope that leads to the cliff edge, but long before they reach it, they are airborne. They head out over the water, lose altitude, and circle back to the beach, making long figure eights parallel to the cliffs, riding the natural updrafts that blow steadily from the sea. When they are ready to land they spiral up in the breeze to the cliff edge, turn towards it, and touch down...
Rudman Ham, an official from the affiliate Children's Hospital, said the new law removes the risk that the state might permanently halt Children's Hospital's plans for building a cystic fibrosis research facility. He added the bill also eliminates the possibility the project will lose funds as a result of the time delay--up to three years--required to obtain a Certificate of Need...
Witcover ends by expressing high hopes for the Carter presidency. "Perhaps he did believe, as he so often said, that he drew his strength from an intimate contact with the American people, and did not want to lose that contact," Witcover writes...
...with a dwindled Watson crowd as Dartmouth scored off a face-off and Petro's leg to help keep you out of the play-offs. And what hurt most of all was that your coolness and confidence that had attracted me were gone. You had learned how to lose...