Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party was joined. Communist Historian Jean Elleinstein launched a three-part Le Monde series. In it, he caustically observed that there had been "more centralism than democracy" in Communism's history and asked whether the French party could not now accommodate more debate, lest it continue to lose rank-and-file voters. Philosopher Louis Althusser, a party hardliner, joined the criticism with his own Le Monde series, and Jacques Frémontier, editor of a Communist magazine for factory workers, resigned in protest over Marchais's handling of the election...
...since World War II to other loan suppliers, including not only the card firms but department-store charge accounts and the auto-finance subsidiaries of the car companies. Insists a top bank executive: "There is no war going on. That would imply that someone must win and someone must lose." But there surely will be a lot of bruising...
...alas, champions of much else. The last World Series they won was in 1918. They have won the pennant three times since World War II, only to lose the Series in seven games, and been run-ners-up five times...
...short-time things looked good for the Sox. They trailed the Tigers only 1-0 while the first-place Yankees looked as though they'd lose both ends of a double-header to the lowly Toronto Blue Jays. The roof collapsed in Motown, however, when the Tigers exploded for 11 more runs to put the game out of reach for the locals, and the Bronx Bombers rallied in Toronto to salvage their nightcap...
...what might be called the Fallacy of Progress. For a century or more, "progress" in penal thinking has signified increasingly humane treatment for criminals, as if punishment were in itself a vestigial barbarity. But if progress implies a steady mitigation of punishment, then at some point "punishment" must logically lose its meaning, crossing over to become something else. Besides, not many people are pitilessly marched to jail today for stealing loaves of bread. Poverty may breed crime, but few thieves steal because they are starving in a society of food stamps and welfare...