Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual big-Springfest-band fiasco is beginning to lose its titillative value (`Council Nixes Sister Hazel,' March 9). College students here have indefatigably diverse musical tastes, and the drive to appropriate five-figure sums for a band that appeals to the whole campus attempts to reify "the campus" under a fictive narrative of "spirit" in the service of an oppressive pennant-waving ideology...
However, anyone who has used these little demons extensively knows how disastrous they can be. After a few months, the storage capabilities of floppy disks become unreliable. They are easy to lose, confuse or erase. And last but not least, they are prime victims for virus infection...
...Hasty Pudding Theater. I am a student at the Kennedy School of Government. I am Jewish. I hope I would be writing this letter even if I were not Jewish, even if my father were not a survivor of World War II, even if he did not lose a majority of his family to the evils of the Nazis...
...major land war in Asia. That prospect may seem less pleasing today. Where the Communists almost had victory within their grasp last spring, the U.S. now bars the way and stands ready to repel any other attempted aggression. Unless Peking and Hanoi withdraw from South Vietnam--and lose face throughout Asia--it is the Communists themselves who risk being bogged in wars that they can neither afford nor end. Their blunder came as no surprise." --Jan. 7, 1966, from Man of the Year profile of General William Westmoreland...
...TIME's desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles. Would Mr. Henderson himself care to be styled plain "Henderson...