Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscious TIME correspondents across the nation, he has been busy surveying the social phenomena of the tennis scene. The result: this week's cover story, which Foote wrote. He tries to play tennis twice a week and describes himself as "an occasional shotmaker with an indomitable will to lose...
...third of the Soweto work force had stayed home for all three days. Some employers considered docking the pay of absentees, but others urged their colleagues not to retaliate in any way. "A money-earning black is a happy black," counseled one executive. "Deprive him of livelihood, and you lose a potential ally when the crunch comes...
...Western view that your self-respect depends on winning, he has managed to reconcile Eastern passivity with the thoroughly Western notion that striving and competition are essential to excellence. "What have you really won when you win?" he asks his students. "What have you really lost when you lose?" As if to show that winning is no big deal, he stages a pushing match between his left hand and his right, then points out that if winner and loser do not push hard, there is nothing in it for either one. True competition, it follows, is really a sophisticated form...
...ending the dog days with a downturn. The Dow Jones industrial average two weeks ago fell 33 points, following Robert Dole's selection as President Ford's running mate-a move some nervous investors saw as increasing the chances that the Republican ticket would lose. Last week the Dow fell another 10.14 points, to a close...
...last week to perform one of Detroit's triennial rites: the selection of a strike target. The union never shuts down the entire industry; it picks one company to concentrate on in the hope that the selected victim will agree to the union's proposals rather than lose sales to its non-struck rivals. Woodcock's announcement: it will be Ford that must reach agreement by Sept. 14 or face a walkout...