Word: loses
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...least a year; a delay this long would inevitably demoralize workers who have been expecting representation and contract negotiation. Awareness of union issues dropped in the five months between the election and the first appeal, and a longer delay could only discourage worker participation. The University could lose the appeal, but still...
Even if Princeton loses and Harvard wins its two remaining Ivy games, Dartmouth (4-1 after a 1-0 triumph over Yale Saturday) must tie or lose in one of its final two league contests for Harvard to take at least a share of the Ivy title...
...audience that the time for sadness has come now that the dying is done. Barnes continues to hammer at the same arguments, the same feminist, anti-clerical strains that he has touted all along. Whatever power they had earlier in the play, these ideas are already beginning to lose their comic appeal, and when made serious, they fall flat. The actors--who look ridiculous to start with in their spectacularly clean frocks, rags and robes--really cannot effect the change with much success...
Labor experts say that unions generally lose backing if there is a delay between an election and contract negotiations. After Harvard challenged the union's victory, that prediction seemed to come true: employees said they were less concerned about unionization because they saw union organizers less frequently and they didn't believe that the union would ever be recognized...
Because the union won the spring election by anarrow margin of less than one percent of the 3400support staff, swing votes--which are the easiestvotes to lose--were key to the victory. Laborexperts say that unions often lose strength duringlegal delays, because uncertain voters changetheir minds...