Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women who have been forcing themselves to exercise regularly to get into shape and lose unwanted pounds may find that the benefits of their athletic pursuits extend beyond a trim look. Past research has determined that exercise may lead to a decreased chance of breast and reproductive tract cancer in women, and four Harvard researchers now hope to discover the biological basis for this reduced risk...
...this fuss over what? Well, backers of the suit say that club members are entitled to certain privileges such as networking and club side benefits that women lose out on by virtue of their...
...more embarrassed than upset," Greene said. "In the shower I tried to gather myself together. When I realized that I was in eighth place in a competition I should have been winning, I realized there was nothing left to lose...
...exactly motivated by altruism when it relaxed the apartheid laws restricting black businesses and property rights, thereby fostering the rise of a black middle class. "It hoped the ownership of palatial homes and heavy mortgages would create a class of black people that would have too much to lose to help the masses in the struggle for liberation," says Aggrey Klaaste, editor of the black newspaper Sowetan. "It has not worked out that way. Not at all." On the contrary, the material success of a growing number of blacks has reinforced demands for economic and political freedom by contributing...
...longest while, it seemed the Yanks didn't know how to win or lose. Speed skaters sore at the world threatened to hire attorneys, and a few clubhouse lawyers were pushing bobsleds. Cross-country skiers straggled in and blamed the wax; slow lugers cursed the friction tape on their sleds. Acting ; defensively only in the press conferences, America's fly-and-die hockey team spoiled rousing 7-5 losses to Czechoslovakia and the U.S.S.R. with rancid asides. "If they hadn't got that lucky second goal," Coach Dave Peterson said of the Czechs, "they might have tanked...