Word: loses
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...Democratic senatorial candidates in the South were able to lose even without Carter's help. Former Virginia Attorney General Andrew Miller never invited Carter in, though the President was willing. He lost by a slim margin to former Navy Secretary John Warner, thus casting Elizabeth Taylor in yet another role, Senate wife. In Mississippi, Cochran became the first Republican Senator in almost a century, partly because the black vote was split Democrat Maurice Dantin and independent Black Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers...
...tendency toward the anarchic, which may be a perfect political reflection of a narcissistic decade. In the absence of party loyalty, officeholders may find it easier to exercise their integrity, although of course they may also owe fealty to some private lobby. In either case, they tend to lose the talent for compromise and concerted effort. Single-issue zealotry, which is rewarded in the new enlarged primary system, can contaminate the entire political process...
...gambling with all its chips if it does not perform a supplementary EIS before a federal district court orders one. Cambridge citizens are gambling another EIS would reject the MBTA's current plans, and when Cambridge citizens sit down at the table and deal, they don't expect to lose...
This "purchase option" plan has drawbacks, however, since faculty members lose tax deductions that they would receive had they owned the homes, and the University is responsible for all maintenance work, O'Brien said...
...this point Scott interjects and says, "Well if we lose to Yale you'll have to keep on playing and turn pro." And if one MacLeod should ever turn pro, you can be sure the other one would follow. The MacLeods, after all, are a clan...