Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usually the first to go bankrupt or give up (see box). Since 1970, farm debt has doubled to $101 billion. An Agriculture Department survey of the wheat belt last summer showed that 73,000 farmers were having trouble repaying loans, with some 14,000 of them likely to lose their farms. Edward H. Melroe, a Colorado grain farmer, reports: "I went to the bank last week for another $10,000 loan, and the banker told me: 'That's it. No more...
...always the one with the most resources," observes a diplomat in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. "The Somalis control the Ogaden, but how will they maintain it? The Somali people now think the W.S.L.F. is some kind of superman. There will be great disillusionment if the front should lose." Perhaps, as has happened so many times before, the war will end in a stalemate of exhaustion. But given the passions of the Ogaden, the chances are that, after an interval, the fighting will begin again...
Derrick A. Bell Jr., Harvard University Law School: "If the court applies the same standards of proof to Bakke's claim that it has to civil rights proponents, Bakke will lose. To prove discrimination, you must also show intent to discriminate. The Justices will find that although race was used, it was used in a sufficiently rational and reasonable way as to require the rejection of a constitutional attack...
...Jazz fired him for not taking his work seriously enough. Nor was Whiteman the only early employer that Crosby disenchanted by drinking and carousing too much. He became a national name only after a medical fluke-the sudden occurrence of nodules on his vocal cords-caused him to lose his voice just before his first scheduled radio network show in 1931. When the voice came back, it had, thanks to the nodules, what Crosby called "the effect of a lad with his voice changing singing into a rain barrel...
...through the wall for him. He put the money up. I want to honor him. I really don't want to leave this job." Martin's obsession with his contract kept floating back. He leaned forward in his chair, and his face hardened. "Win or lose this Series," he said, "I'm going to demand a new contract that gives me some independence. If he fires me, he'll never live it down, with these fans." He sounded surer of himself now, more confident that he had an edge in the battle with the owner...