Word: loses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Strangely, the head, the supposed repository of wisdom and common sense, is the most prodigal of all heat leakers. It can lose 50% of all body warmth. The head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs...
When asked about the "slow" grand opening, a nonplussed Sobil said, "It's there for the people and if they don't use it they lose...
...effect: the new circumstances select for the preferential survival and reproduction of variants with increased fitness for those circumstances. This Darwinian process explains a phenomenon that confused early workers: when pathogenic bacterial strains are isolated from infected hosts and then repeatedly transferred in artificial culture media they often rapidly lose virulence. We now know the mechanism by which this improved adaptation to the new environment occurs, at the expense of decreased adaptation to the old one (i.e., loss of virulence): the original strain is gradually outgrown by the progeny of are mutants that are better adapted to the new culture...
...scouts preach loyalty to King, country and Buddhism. Besides seeking local allies like the scouts, field commanders claim to have learned from the failures of the U.S. and the Thieu regime in Viet Nam. "If the Thai soldier is corrupt," says an army major, "then the Thais will lose the same way Laos and Viet Nam lost...
...received by the CAB since October have been for ABC trips, competitively priced as much as 40% below regular economy rates on scheduled flights. (In 1975 U.S. charter or supplemental airlines held about 10% of the total passenger travel market between Europe and the U.S.) Hotelkeepers, who stand to lose since ABC passengers are not required to buy ground accommodations, remain unperturbed. Says Arnold Orenstein, general manager of the Puerto Rico Sheraton in San Juan: "The more people travel, the better...