Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forgive him. He's got a kind of thing about him that says to them, I don't hate you. I'm not aloof from you.' But there is suspicion. People are just waiting to see-is this a pattern? If it is, he could lose them overnight...
White liberals appeared to be more put off by Carter's remarks than the blacks. Says one Midwestern liberal leader: "The question is whether or not 'ethnic purity' is a code word, and if so, is it calculated to lose 5% of the black vote and pick up 12% of Wallace's support? Or was it just a blunder...
...They would make one last-and probably foredoomed-try to cooperate with the other parties on emergency economic measures. If that failed, they would have to accept the inevitability of an early election-probably this June, a year ahead of schedule. It would be an election they may well lose, but the Communists are leery of winning. Given what observers call a choice of "a gun or slow poison" (a quick, risky election or the certainty of ever-increasing Communist influence), the Christian Democrats seemed inclined to try shooting...
...style in office, a number of substantive issues have fueled the conflict. Boston is meagerly endowed ($25 million), and the administration has been forced to modify its $128 million budget to meet the demands of declining enrollments and rising costs. In December, 90 untenured professors were told they would lose their jobs when their contracts expired. Announcing the need for a 20% budget cut in the next two years, Silber suggested that some tenured professors might also be released. But according to a number of faculty members, the issue was not the possible cutting but the administration's competence...
...together, he sips a few cold ones in the dugout while watching his team take the field for the first game. Score at the end of the first half of the first inning: 26 to zip. Buttermaker (Walter Matthau) figures it is time to forfeit. He has nothing to lose but his pains, and there are nine of them on his team, with a couple of alternates thrown in for good measure...