Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rituals, bad theater without meaning or any attempt at meaning.) An oil well catches fire and to extinguish the flames the oil company needs vast quantities of explosives. The nearest explosives are separated from the well by 218 miles of tortuous jungle road; expert truck drivers, who will probably lose their lives, must bring them...
CHAPTER 1: WHY LOSE...
Laetrile believers are unlikely to lose faith even if the drug flunks tests on humans conducted by Sloan-Kettering or the National Cancer Institute. They will claim that the tests were "fixed" because the experimenters were "biased...
...only remedy is a lot of dynamite. Friedkin carefully-too carefully-sets all this up. He explains just why the well is not reachable by air and why the only available dynamite has aged into a highly volatile condition. Finally, as before, four desperate characters, men with nothing to lose, are recruited to drive the explosive by truck over a road that traverses swamps, rain forests, mountains and deserts. Unlike Clouzot, Friedkin gives us extensive biographies on three of them-an Arab terrorist, a French banker who has been caught in fraud, a small-time hoodlum who has made...
Some close aides of the Chancellor believe he is so resigned to eventual defeat that he may ask for a vote of confidence in the Bundestag in early fall. According to this scenario, Schmidt would lose and call for a new national election, which the opposition Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union alliance would almost certainly win. The reasoning behind this strategy: the new government would bog down in the economic and social difficulties facing the country, and thereby prepare the way for a revamped and refreshed S.P.D. to win a clear majority in the 1981 election, without the need...