Word: loses
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...major disruption for the band was losing Brennan. "A glamorous way to lose a band member is a plane crash, a drug overdose, or maybe asphyxiation, but we lost ours to academics," says Tarver, smiling. Brennan won the prestigious Rome Prize in classics for a year of study in Rome...
...course, is in the tasting, and here the Aussies are doing just fine. Anthony Dias Blue, a San Francisco-based wine-and-food writer who was a judge at last year's Qantas Wine Cup, an annual taste-off of U.S. and Australian varietals, says, "I expected to lose in the Rieslings, Sauvignon Blancs and sparkling wines, but I never in a million years thought we would lose in Chardonnays and Cabernets." Down Under wines, Blue concludes, "are going to be accepted on a par with California. They've gotten their foothold...
After three years of bureaucratic successes, few expect Gorbachev to lose ground in the upcoming party conference. "He is the consummate politician," said one Western diplomat in Moscow. But the Soviet leader could be brought low by circumstances beyond his control. Last week renewed unrest flared in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave in the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan; the Communist Party at week's end dismissed the party leaders of the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The continued turmoil suggests that Gorbachev's decision to allow dissent among ethnic minorities could still return to haunt him. So could the withdrawal...
Many young professionals have launched their own charitable groups. As women master the most advanced fund-raising techniques, they lose their patience with the labor-intensive traditions of club charity work. "Women's philanthropy is becoming much more sophisticated," says Los Angeles Businesswoman Patty DeDominic. "Why have twelve committee meetings to raise $4,000 when, with the right contacts and planning, you can have one event at someone's home and raise...
Without some kind of brake on development, the Square is doomed to lose all the homey, friendly businesses which gave it its flavor. Instead we may find a haven for the rich who can afford the soulless office buildings and expensive boutiques which are accumulating today...