Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last pitcher to win 20 games and lose 20 games in the same year...
...Shoeless Joe" Jackson was banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series as a member of the Chicago White Sox. What did he hit while trying to lose...
With the increasing repression of the military regimes and the delay of their democratic aspirations, the Latin American people may lose confidence in the methods and solutions of liberal democracies and become more and more attracted to armed struggle, as the growing popularity of leftist groups among the Argentine working class indicates. Latin America may overcome one of the darkest periods in its history only after a long and bloody struggle. The United States will then look back on the democratic alternative presented by Allende and lament that it didn't support it when it still had a chance...
...lost its thin majority in the House of Commons, where it now holds 313 of the 631 seats. Labor still maintains a 38-seat edge over the Tories and can count on a few votes from the minor parties to enable it to continue governing, but it may lose its grip on the important committee chairmanships. The Tories, moreover, demonstrated impressive muscle in last week's balloting for town and district councilmen in England and Wales. Of the nearly 16,000 members elected, the Conservatives picked up more than 1,000 new seats; Labor gained only 15 new seats...
...local TV news is that it's becoming successful," says William Leonard, a veteran television newsman who is now CBS vice president in Washington. As he told a group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard recently, local TV news used to be "provided grudgingly so you wouldn't lose your license." But the amount of news has lately been increased substantially because news shows now often provide half of a station's revenue. The resulting rivalry for ratings and hours reminds Leonard of the shoddy newspaper-circulation wars earlier in the century. Says he: "The stakes are high...