Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the "laid back" counterculture opposition to striving seems central to no-win sports. The foundation's John O'Connell insists that the aim is not to win but to catch "the flow." And what is the flow? "Being so involved you lose track of time," he says. "Feeling light, as if in love." Which, as everybody knows, is usually a no-win game...
Insists a local leader, Lenore Johnson: "Motors and snowmobiles do not harm the environment-they only offend the elite canoe purists." Outdoor Equipment Supplier Woods Davis says that he would lose half of his business if he could not rent motorboats to vacationers. Adds John Chelesnik, an Ely fishing diehard: "I go to the woods every weekend. In one eight-hour day I can go eight times as far as a canoeist can. That's important...
...Angeles musicians will miss Mehta, but they can't seem to lose these days. They have inherited an unsurpassed replacement: Giulini, whose mystical readings of music sometimes seem inspired by communion with the composer. Says one Los Angeles Philharmonic staffer: "You could say that we've lost a Hercules, but we're getting...
...Commission and a House committee have looked into CBS's bogus $250,000 "winner-take-all" match between Connors and Ilie Nastase (in which Connors actually was guaranteed $500,000 and Nastase received $150,000). Far more serious are charges of players' defaulting and "tanking," or purposely losing matches. Occasionally, players who lose early in singles expend less than full effort on their doubles matches with the aim of squeezing in a few days of rest or practice on a faltering serve...
...baby freaks." Though they have two children of their own and have adopted three others, they wanted still more. But Mary has had three miscarriages, possibly because of blood disorders. So when she became pregnant again, she decided that "we're not just going to sit back and lose another baby." Now, she has given birth to a 7-lb. girl at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. While the baby may still need an exchange transfusion, mother and daughter should be discharged shortly...