Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hill. Austrian Hubert Strolz, the combined gold medalist, skied superbly, and Zurbriggen only a little less so. They finished second and third. After the commanding first run by Alberto Tomba, the 21- year-old Italian now universally known as La Bomba, it never seemed possible that he would lose. He did not. Tomba is a big, curly-haired, laughing fellow, winner of seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world's best gate skier. But he is unusually agile and strong, and -- this is hard to express adequately -- confident. Earlier, when...
...publisher's only sensible gamble, of course, was that Rothchild would lose. Had the nearly impossible happened and Rothchild transformed his modest pile into $5 million or $10 million, the book project would have lost its urgency. If he had finished the year with, say, $25,500, a respectable profit of more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious...
...those who have struggled to lose weight or keep it off, research into the origins of obesity has begun to offer an absolution of sorts. Last week two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that some fat people, rather than being slothful or gluttonous, have an inborn predisposition to gain weight. Reason: instead of burning off excess calories as others do, obese bodies are programmed to convert them into fat. Thus, while fat people may eat the same amount of food as thinner people do, they gain more weight. Moreover, their tendency...
Several members of Congress have pressed for the U.S. to get tough with foreign governments that fail to make a good-faith effort at halting the drug trade. Each year the President must "certify" whether drug-trafficking countries have made progress. Those that are "decertified" lose U.S. aid, trade preferences and other economic benefits. There is particular pressure in Congress to punish Panama and Mexico. This week President Reagan is expected to decertify Panama. Mexico, however, will probably receive only warnings and be exempted from economic sanctions on the ground that greater punishment might tend to destabilize it and thus...
...free program, the spectators howled. They did not understand that the judges must deduct points if the dancers execute a forbidden move. In ice dancing, for example, the prohibitions included lifting the woman above the man's shoulders and knee slides. In the pairs and singles short programs, skaters lose at least .4 of a point if they land their combination jump on two feet; a fanny fall calls for a .5-point reduction...