Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very bad, an attack on the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger foreign policy," Scranton said. In a conference in the sky suite, Burch, Tower, Senators Hugh Scott and Roman Hruska tried to still the urge for more combat. They reasoned that Ford had just won the big test, he might well lose a second, there was no need to dilute the night's good work. Nearly alone, Rocky sought some softening language. The Reaganites were in no mood for compromise...
...Manhattan Lawyer Rita Hauser, former U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, complains: "We are viewed by the right wing as if we were lepers. I have nothing against conservatives, but they are not willing to make the happy pragmatic blend, and that is why they lose...
...that editors of the Scribner-Bantam English Dictionary have thrown caution to the winds. For a new edition to appear next January, they drafted an entry reading: "Carter, James /kart'ar/ n (1924-) 39th president of the U.S. 1977-." Although the listing can be deleted if Carter should lose the election on Nov. 2, Carter has no intention of putting the editors to that trouble...
Millard's experience with the unilateral deformity has been so deep and extensive that he has compiled it in a large volume: Cleft Craft (Little, Brown), which weighs 7 Ibs. and lists at $85. Even with that fiscal bite, Millard expects to lose money: his 10% royalty will not cover the original costs of research and illustration. Volume II, on bilateral and rare cleft-lip deformities, is already at the publisher's. Millard is also at work on alveolar and palatal deformities for Volume...
...encouraged the overcapacity that results in a year-round average passenger load of less than 60%. They also dispute the British assertion that a cut in total flights would improve all the airlines' earnings; indeed, under such an arrangement the hard-pressed, unsubsidized U.S. carriers would certainly lose. U.S. airlines point out that far from having more than a fair share of the business, the American flight schedules exactly match the actual pattern of travel between the two countries, which is about 60% by Americans and 32% by Britons...