Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel any difference home or away, though we don't want to let anyone come into our ball park and beat us," said senior rightfielder Andrew Huling. "We don't want to lose any games, it's just worked out that the games we've lost have been on the road." NORTHEASTERN 6 HARVARD...
...sensibilities comes indignation and with indignation a desire to refute. But to refute an argument successfully, even or perhaps especially a contrarian argument, requires understanding. And if one attempts to understand a contrarian argument, one might even come to appreciate or agree with it. In a word, one might lose a prejudice...
...well provoke a rift among sex researchers. Raymond Rosen, a professor of psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J., makes the obvious but necessary point that Viagra will not be the final word on sexual dysfunction or dissatisfaction: "There's a danger that we could lose sight of the fact that a lot of sexual problems relate to poor relationships or poor self-esteem or anxiety, depression or other factors." Or as Petersen, the Playboy adviser, puts it, "You can take an angry couple and give them Viagra, and then you have an angry couple with...
...wife's grief; he figures, correctly, that Marion will not be able to resist Eddie, who is so close in age to the dead sons. For her part, Marion plans to run away from both her unfaithful husband and the daughter she is afraid to love lest she lose her too. Marion uses Eddie, who has fallen into bed and love with her, to help her get away. She takes almost all the photographs of her sons with her, leaving her daughter without a mother and the walls with nothing but picture hooks to remind Ruth of the brothers...
...same time, because the plant is not located directly on campus, the pipes lose some heat as the steam travels through the underground system. Engineers must also worry about the thermal expansion of underground pipes through junctions. "In 300 feet, [the pipes] may expand six to nine inches when they go from room temperature to steam at 400 degrees Fahrenheit," says Hawkes...