Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part it was money madness. New Orleans is a two-industry town (shipping and sightseeing), and it stands to lose as much as $250 million in tourist dollars from cancellation of the festival. Normally jammed this time of year, the city's hotels are half empty. Meanwhile, despite protection by 350 state police and 600 national guardsmen at a cost to the city of $100,000 a day, Bourbon Street merchants began to complain of lost business and increased shoplifting. They promptly smacked a $30 million damage suit on the striking cops and the Teamsters, the union that represents...
...Economists opposes a constitutional amendment that would require balancing the budget in each year. Similarly, all shudder at the thought of a constitutional convention, at which extremists might bring up all sorts of far-out schemes to change the Constitution. Said Beryl Sprinkel: "I don't want to lose the freedom we've got, so I am very concerned about having a constitutional convention." However, added David Grove...
...unions to restrain wage demands, but last week the AFL-CIO announced plans to challenge the program in court. The federation argues that the National Labor Relations Act requires employers to bargain "in good faith" with unions, and claims that doing so is impossible if companies know they can lose federal contracts by agreeing to excessive wage increases...
...toilets and garbage disposal, laundry, showering, washing, utility and telephone connections. Says New Yorker Susan Elliott, 33, who runs a happy ship with Daughter Tania, 11: "It makes living on a New Hampshire farm seem easy." (She tried that too.) A less tangible disadvantage is that boat people lose their old landlubber friends. Also, banks and stores sometimes look on a local Sinbad as a dubious credit risk. After all, he/she may cast off for Samoa or Sardinia on the whim of a wind...
Other questions remain. Can Crimson freshman Tim Maximoff nab the silver in the 1650? Can diver Steve Schramm recover from a stitched-up head and a flu bug which has caused him to lose 81/2 lbs. in the last five days...