Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steve Williams '75-4 strutted into the Scrabble Players' Club in Brooklyn looking for a match. "I thought I was good. And besides, what could I lose at five cents a game?" he said yesterday. "Next thing I knew a Russian ace had ripped me off for nineteen bucks in four games...
...earlier. Some students can afford cars before they are old enough to obtain driver's licenses. The game has its risks, but excitement adds to the glamour. Some win; 17 and 18 years olds can be seen confidently wheeling Fleetwood Cadillacs and Lincoln Continentals through the city streets. Some lose; an acquaintance of one of the authors was murdered in a "drug-related crime" within half a year of graduation from high school...
...networks lose money on many of their prime-time shows; they need the daytime profits, which are now expected to show a healthy increase, to finance the more expensively produced evening programs. A show like Kojak costs $250,000 to produce but brings in revenues of only $200,000. To make one week of Days of Our Lives costs NBC $170,000; daily advertising revenues...
Writers often lose a character for a while or injure him for plot purposes or to test popularity. Last spring Millionaire Mack Corey, the indulgent husband of Rachel on Another World, was injured in a polo match and temporarily paralyzed from the waist down so his wife would be tempted to fool around. A similar ploy was used by Bell on The Young and the Restless. When Jennifer Brooks went off with a lover, she went out of focus. Says Bell: "I knew I had to pull back. How more dramatically than to put her on center stage?" Jennifer left...
...champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...