Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rivalry have changed as well. The result is an apparent contradiction that should be no surprise to veteran Reagan watchers. "He wants a summit. He wants an arms- control agreement -- one that is fair and maybe even verifiable," says a close White House aide. "He doesn't want to lose the opportunity." Still, Reagan retains a deep distrust of Soviet motives and a conviction that the U.S. must stay strong and alert. The President, says one loyalist, "is carrying these two conflicting concepts in his mind. It's a two-judge court," and either judge could rule at any given...
...must play Pagliacci to the end. Editors and women friends are brought on to recall a "contained," "testy, easily depressed man," "cranky to be considered this 'national treasure' and not sell." Herrmann adds that after the failure of his last play, The Beauty Part, in 1963, "(Perelman) began to lose the comic writer's most precious gift -- a sense of humor." This will come as a great surprise to readers who enjoyed Perelmania in five later collections of essays as well as a number of saline interviews and commentaries. It is true that personally Perelman was never Mr. Sunshine...
...happy Falwell is travelling around, endorsing candidates for office and entertaining me in the process. I'm even happier when the candidates lose. But they don't lose as much as they should anymore. That's at least partly because Falwell has tried to hide his prejudice and insensitivity for the sake of legitimacy on the national scene...
Under a proposal for economic conversion that he advocates, legislation would assure that corporations do not lose money when they lose defense contracts because the government would help them convert their operations to produce goods for the civilian market...
...telephone wire. One flies off, they all fly off. One flies back, they all fly back." That view of journalism, however unfair, is widely held even among journalists. It has become commonplace self-criticism that news organizations tend to converge on a social trend, stir up alarm, then lose interest in unison and move on to some other concern. Last week a debate heated up about whether the media have collectively hyped the nation's drug problem, especially the threat posed by crack, a potent form of cocaine. At the forefront was an unlikely critic of media warnings about illegal...