Word: loses
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Even so, the Administration will not lose that battle for lack of trying. Selling the treaty is the top item on the President's agenda-an all-out effort to score a clear-cut foreign policy success amid a series of setbacks. "Carter is deploying his lieutenants the way George Gordon Meade did at Gettysburg," says a Pentagon officer who has briefed Congressmen on the treaty. "And that was a hell of a fight...
...consumer's guide titled How to Save Your Teeth and Your Money (Van Nostrand Reinhold; $8.95). He chides Americans for spending nearly $9 billion a year on dental care "without the foggiest notion" of what their dentists are doing for them, and estimates that some 6 million people lose perfectly salvageable teeth each year, many at "extraction mills." Writes Denholtz, quoting a Pennsylvania insurance department estimate: 15% of all dentists are "incompetent, dishonest or both." As an antidote to such outrages, the book urges consumers to drill their dentists on basic subjects like costs, procedures and alternatives before submitting...
...complaint up with the dentist first. If you do not get satisfaction, go to your dental society, insurance carrier or consumer-advocate agency. "If nothing else works," Denholtz concludes, "then consult your attorney." But he admits that the odds are stacked against the consumer: only a handful of dentists lose their licenses each year, and malpractice suits are rarely worth the cost or trouble...
...record as being against the treaty who I think will eventually support it." As for Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd's suggestion that the vote be delayed until next year, Jordan said simply: "We certainly don't want an early vote if we're going to lose...
...that the recovery of a few life-enriching shards of history and art is well worth the loss of hundreds of Legion and Arab lives. "We're both in the grave business," sneers Hackman. "You dig them up and I fill them in." Later, Von Sydow seems to lose the thread of the argument and takes to sitting in corners and gazing hungrily at Deneuve...