Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you've been working as hard as these kids have all year and then lose it all in the last 15 minutes it can be hard to accept for a while," said Coccoluto...
There will be fewer "everybodys," though. As many as 35 of the division's 250 producers have been let go. The Morning News, a producer predicted, will become more like a newsreel, drawing many of its stories from overseas and affiliate bureaus, and will lose at least 20 of its 75 staffers. Stringer, hailed as the savior of CBS News when he took the job last September, wriggles in his role as the terminator. "Right now we're not thinking much about the outcome of the war," he says. "We're mostly thinking of the casualties...
...arms reduction, considering the extremely negative political, economic and strategic consequences of deployment and the harm SDI would do to the stability of the world situation. (Prominent U.S. political figures are convinced that Congress would not permit it.) If disarmament begins, the SDI program in the U.S. will lose its popularity...
...offered folk wisdom on how to deal with foreigners. "It showed the essential traits of the image the Chinese have of themselves," he explains, "the final victory of the resourceful Chinese over the crafty foreigner, and the ability of the Chinese to know how to act without having anyone lose face." The tale that ecologists were using airplanes to drop vipers into the woods of Perigord (as prey for endangered hawks) expressed provincial contempt for ecologists as impractical outsiders. "No one bothered to ask whether it wouldn't be cheaper to rent a car or truck to release the snakes...
Though civil libertarians had expected to lose in Hand's court, they were still stunned by the breadth of the ruling. Despite the likelihood of a reversal on appeal, Hand's decision "gives Fundamentalists a two-year supply of matches to remove what they disagree with," charges Anthony Podesta, president of People for the American Way, the liberal lobbying group that helped secure legal counsel for a group of parents who opposed the challenge to the books. "The judge has stood the First Amendment on its head...