Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What did it feel like to lose badly? To get creamed...
Harvard led, 5-1, at the close of the third period, but St. John's came back with three goals in the final stanza. "They came back in the fourth," Scalise said, "but we didn't really feel that we were ever going to lose. We controlled the field for the entire game...
...news is no less bleak 750 miles to the northeast in Deadhorse, a town of prefabricated modules that hunkers next to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, north of the Arctic Circle. The Prudhoe Bay Trading Post recently held a sale. DON'T SNOOZE, YOU'LL LOSE, the sign trumpeted. Clerk Lisa Greenwood had trouble staying awake. "At 8:30, there wasn't a soul in here," she says. "Business has gone down 50% in the past year." The house she and her husband Perry bought outside Anchorage two years ago for $120,000 is now appraised...
...with its Chicago regional office. Tenneco and Shell Oil will begin tests by early next year. To the consternation of the local and regional Bells, a few companies, including Westinghouse and the Travelers insurance firm, have installed their own ISDN internal systems. The Bells are concerned that they may lose some of their largest customers if more companies follow suit...
...pastiche of American pop offers histrionic passages but no memorable tunes. Worse, the races -- the core of the plot -- look contrived. When one "engine" passes another, no burst of athletic elan justifies the triumph; sometimes the jockeying for position takes place out of view, sometimes the team fated to lose just reins itself in short of the finish line...