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Word: loses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infection; crowded together with inadequate sanitation and nonexistent medical care, the starving-as the refugee experience proves-become prey to typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis and malaria. The absence of essential vitamins or minerals can also bring on the so-called deficiency diseases: rickets, beriberi and pellagra. Sometimes, the hungry simply lose the will to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Body Eats Itself | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...outcry and numerous congressional investigations. Yet Congress took no serious action to prevent this from happening again once the furor faded. This year the percentage rises in profit have been up to three times as high. If the government cannot establish an "all-American" oil company now, it will lose the opportunity forever--the chance to join the rest of the Western, capitalist, industrialized world in fielding a state-owned competitor...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: All-American Oil | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

Seven of the nine council incumbents also seem likely to hold their seats. Only pro-rent control incumbent Mary Ellen Preusser and one-term rent control foe Lawrence E. Frisoli seem likely to lose their spots on the board. They will probably be replaced by Leonard Russell, described as more moderate than Frisoli, and tenant activist David Sullivan, a strong supporter of rent control...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: City Board Splits Unchanged In Wake of Tuesday Election | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Granted, while Medford is west of Cambridge, it's hardly what Horace Greeley had in mind; and while the Jumbos have yet to lose a game, New England Division three competition is far from the Pac 10 or the Western Athletic Conference...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Vic Gatto: Doing the Impossible | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...doesn't he just go away," say the big brass in Grays Hall. "Why doesn't he lose and go back to the North End where he came from," says another (the councilor has lived in Cambridge all of his life...

Author: By Alfred E. Vellucci, | Title: Vellucci/Harvard | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

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