Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-year-old child was watching this screaming... [Shah] said to me in front of my children that all I wanted to do was "suck d___." I asked him not to use this language in front of my children... I said that his drinking had caused him to lose his job, wife and children. [Shah denies that he drinks to excess, or that drinking has ever cost him a job; former colleagues confirm his account.] He came down the stairs...and punched me in the face, he hit me with the car seat which he had picked up, threw...
Coolness and squareness both have their excesses. The problem with some cool guys is that they hold on to their rebelliousness long after it's romantic. The problem with some squares is that they lose the boy inside them altogether. But perhaps we're moving past the old dichotomies. Soon they'll become meaningless distinctions like mind and body. In Silicon Valley nerdiness is cool. Using drugs, once a sign of coolness, is considered square. Isn't it better, after all, to be a mixture, a cool square, a square cool...
...Harvard's residential Houses lose their unique flavors due to randomization, House formals provide a way for residents to come together, assert House spirit and party like rock stars...
...Chrysler. Daimler describes the deal as a "merger of equals," but there's no doubt about who the senior partner is here. Chrysler shareholders will receive just over half a share in the new company for every one share their Daimler counterparts get, and Chrysler chair Robert Eaton will lose his co-leadership position inside of three years...
...Boeing 747-100 like Flight 800 has over 150miles of electrical wiring, Scarry says, and manysystems can be disabled or act erratically in thepresence of EMI. According to Scarry, EMI cancause a pilot flying such a craft to lose controlof steering mechanisms as the aircraft controlsurfaces (rudders, ailerons and flaps) becomeunresponsive to cockpit "fly by wire" controls...