Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is our 350th birthday, and in celebrating it we don't want to lose track of Cambridge and Boston's participation in it," said Harvard President Derek C. Bok at yesterday's press conference. He praised the cities' contributions to Harvard, and apologized for "the various loud noises and other annoyances we have produced over the past 350 years...
...Iran's favor. In February, Tehran staged its most sophisticated assault of the long and bloody conflict. Named Val Fajr (I Swear by the Dawn), the attack seized the Iraqi oil port of Fao. Iraq recovered briefly by capturing the Iranian border town of Mehran in May, only to lose it again in June. Though it enjoys an enormous advantage in equipment, its reliance on rigid defensive tactics makes its soldiers vulnerable to the night attacks and lightning raids of its enemy. "Remember," says a senior U.S. official, "the Iranians are chess players, and the Arabs are basically...
...costly war "to the frontiers of martyrdom." The only other resolution would come from a decisive victory by one side or the other. But even in the event of a Basra offensive, military analysts predict, Iran will still prove unable to win the war and Iraq unlikely to lose it. The only certainty is more blood, and then more...
Rome readily acknowledged Curran's charge that he had been singled out. A Vatican official said it was the "length and breadth and depth" of Curran's dissent that caused him to become the first American to lose his teaching license. In 1968, for example, Curran organized 600 U.S. academic and church professionals to endorse a statement taking issue with Pope Paul VI's condemnation of contraception in the encyclical Humanae vitae...
...sometimes suspect that they are kept on board long enough to prevent them from catching a competing flight, even though many airlines have agreements to transfer passengers in such situations. If other flights are available, notes Daniel Smith, a spokesman for the International Airline Passengers Association, "the airline can lose a whole planeful of passengers and their money. In a deregulated environment, that's a disaster...