Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale does have a shot at tying for the title, provided the Big Green lose to Princeton, which is about as likely as a draw play to Bill Weld...
...little to check it. Different sections of the Government were even working against each other. Step-by-step increases in interest rates forced by the Fed failed to halt an inflationary increase in the U.S. money supply. So those who sold dollars regarded the sales as a can't-lose bet. Their thinking: So what if the dollar is undervalued? It will probably go down some more, and Washington won't buy dollars to prop up the price. Get out of dollars and buy yen, marks, gold, anything...
...Brazil's first Indian protection agency was established, at least 1 million Indians died, many of them massacred with that agency's connivance. Whites who coveted Indian lands dynamited villages, gave the Indians food laced with arsenic and inoculated entire tribes with smallpox virus. If the Indians lose their land, "there will be no Indians left in 30 years," said Bishop Tomas Balduíno, the head of the Roman Catholic Church's mission to the Indians. "The emancipation of Brazil's Indians is a means of committing genocide, this time without dirtying anyone...
Nikolai Gogol had a mind like a trap door. Anyone venturing on the deceptive surfaces of his works must be prepared to lose his footing at unexpected moments and be sent plummeting into radical alterations of consciousness. Realism shifts to fantasy; the prosaic turns mystical; solid citizens stumble unwittingly into topsy-turvy land...
Unfortunately for the MBTA, the council's decision to take the state agency to court indicates that the city means business. What it means in this case is long delays and continued financial woes for the MBTA, which stands to lose $3 million for every month construction is delayed...