Word: loses
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...feet (m.c.f). That scheme made it through the House, but the gas industry's friends in the Senate wanted to abolish controls altogether, which would leave the price to be set by free-market forces. Byrd plumped for Carter's bill. He sensed, however, that he would lose in the Senate, which would vote to lift price ceilings. Nonetheless, he figured that any decontrol measure would later be undone by the House when the time came for a compromise on a final version of the energy bill. In the end, reasoned Byrd, Carter would...
...twelve times before dying, chicken cells 25 times, human cells 50 times. That discovery could explain one important characteristic of aging: the inevitable deterioration of the body's immune system. As the years pass, the system's lymphoid cells, no longer able to proliferate in adequate numbers, lose their power to fight off invaders and sometimes even mistake the body's own tissue for foreign bugs. Thus the aged become increasingly vulnerable to diseases-from cold viruses to cancer...
...quarrel is not resolved, the defection of only 2% or 3% of the Socialist vote could prevent the left from getting the 54% it needs to win a majority in the National Assembly. On the other hand, if Mitterrand yields to Communist demands for widespread nationalization, the Socialists could lose the support of moderate voters who fear Communist supremacy...
HARVARD AT CORNELL--The following appeared in this space a year ago: "There is absolutely no way in the world the Crimson can lose to Cornell." Then it rained. So let's try once more, this time with feeling. There is absolutely no way in the world the Crimson can lose to Cornell. Harvard 30, Cornell 26, and if I'm wrong again, don't expect me home for dinner. Don't expect the football team, either...
...would be perfectly capable of defeating the North. Kim II Sung, the North Korean dictator, "would be absolutely out of his mind to launch a war against the South," Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and one of the strongest advocates of a military withdrawal, says. Sung would surely lose a war fought against South Korea not only because the South is stronger, but because Russia and China have shown no recent interest in supporting the North, and since July 1950, when deputy minister of foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko concluded that the civil war in Korea was a "civil war among...