Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of "Old 75," the elm on the White House grounds [Jan. 16], should remind us all that the environmental movement has yet to make a real impact on Congress or the White House. Lack of budget support for forestry research and management is a national disgrace. We lose more trees to insects and disease every year than we do to forest fires...
...timelessness of the great golfer that lends the same so much of its mystique. Golfers such as Sarazen and Snead bridge the generations and put in perspective the achievements of past and present. It would indeed be a shame to lose the ageless pleasure of watching Sarazen amble along the fairways, wearing the plus-fours and argylls of a past epoch and grinning his Cheshire Cat grin...
...Peace cannot be built when a country treads on the land and sovereignty of another . . . When the Israeli Foreign Minister says we can sit and negotiate and go halfway, I answer: Halfway is, for us, to lose our land and our sovereignty...
...political force on the left, has been overshadowed by the Socialists in recent years. Communist support has remained roughly stable-about 20% of the electorate-but the Socialists have climbed from 5% to nearly 30% since 1969. Marchais obviously felt that it would be better for the left to lose the elections altogether if the Communists could not win on their own terms. Mitterrand was clearly angered. "Is it possible," he asked, "that the Communist Party, under the pretext of not achieving a certain percentage, would sacrifice the immense hopes of the French...
...latest polls showed a 51% to 45% voter preference for the left. The two-phase elections, however, will not necessarily produce like results. Referring to Marchais's intransigence, a Socialist leader last week sized up the prospects. "If there is no electoral accord," said he, "the left will lose...