Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists had decided before the protest that none of the students supporting the effort would participate in the blockade because they had more to lose than the alumni, said McLeod...
...corporations doing business in South Africa: $416 million). More than once, students have jeered at him: "Hey, hey, Derek Bok, throw away your racist stock!" Bok strongly condemns apartheid, but he opposes total withdrawal. "The most obvious result of divestment," he wrote recently, "would be that the university would lose the influence it currently has to persuade companies to oppose apartheid." But students still demonstrate outside his office, and occasionally Bok stops to reason with them in his methodical fashion...
...beat and the Duane Eddy- style guitar rumble of Earle's band, even as they paid respectful attention to such back-against-the-wall Earle lyrics as "I hit the beer joints every Friday night/ Spend a little money lookin' for a fight/ It don't matter if I lose or win/ 'Cause Monday I'm back on the losin' end again." That has always been one of the neatest tricks in country, writing about the losing end and coming out a winner, and the fact that Earle can carry it off still seems to surprise him. When he heard...
Today, as Harvard contemplates its role in the world beyond the Yard, it ought not lose sight of its true purpose. As an academic community, Harvard can offer society no greater gift than its commitment to free and penetrating inquiry...
Harvard President James Bryant Conant '13 was a strong supporter of the public school system and during his tenure established the scholarship system that drew talented students from around the country to Cambridge. He recognized that Harvard must never lose sight of the entire continuum of the educational system, a sentiment that the new endowment captures...