Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...severe restrictions on food additives and for more detailed product labeling. Nebraska Republican Congresswoman Virginia Smith, expressing a view common in the farm belt, protested: "Carol Tucker Foreman, one of agriculture's biggest enemies, is at work right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose confidence in American farm products." The meat industry has sued to block her order that nitrite levels in bacon must be sharply reduced, from 150 parts per million now to 40 parts per million next year. Still, Nader found the order too weak and roasted her for caving...
They offer substantial write-offs for the cost of labor, exploration and other "intangible drilling expenses," which often comprise 70% of the investment. If high-income investors hit a gusher, they get richer; if not, they do not lose much because a lot of their invested money would have gone for taxes anyway...
Fukuda decided to drop out of the running after his second place primary showing, but he could have stayed in the race, which the Japanese Parliament will formally decide December 1. "After the primary, it seemed a foregone conclusion Fukuda would lose" in the parliamentary election, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former American ambassador to Japan, said yesterday...
...think Harvard will lose," Sullivan said, adding "their position is ridiculous...
Take Victor's match with Freddy the Thumper, for instance. Victor goes down after 22 rounds. He only gets up because Freddy starts beating up Cosmo. This motivates him to win the match, which, we learn later, he had intended to lose because he was disturbed by the squabbling between his brothers his wrestling caused. "Why did you wait until the 22nd round if you were going to throw the match?" Cosmo asks. Victor replies, "Because I was born on the 22nd." Even Victor could not be dumb enough to get himself stomped on for 22 rounds for that reason...