Word: loses
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...uncommonly wise with a gift for lawmaking and an impeccable moral vision. His legislation is both moral and politic, popular and wise. Of course, the picture isn't completely rosy. Sometimes the people do not understand the message or the messenger. The people of Israel lose faith in Moses; the ten commandments are shattered at the foot of Sinai...
...proselytizers. The Dalai Lama has stated that the age of useful religious competition is past; people should stay with their birth faiths while profiting from other traditions. But some of Western Buddhism's more influential thinkers believe that it has far more to offer than meditation and may lose its essential core if it strives to Americanize too fully. Tworkov, who balances all sides nicely in Tricycle, believes many practitioners of engaged Buddhism are merely aping Christian charity, a trend she fears. "We have a lot of Red Cross Buddhism. I have no problem with the Red Cross...
...rift developed between MCI and BT over the price of their carefully negotiated merger because MCI's share price kept falling. Opportunity knocked the moment BT demanded a $5 billion discount off the price it had agreed to pay for MCI, which said in July that it would lose $800 million trying to break into the local-phone market in 1997 and could have even larger losses next year. The cut angered MCI shareholders, who are now likely to jump at WorldCom's 66% higher offer. Ebbers figures he can afford that premium through economies of scale. He notes that...
...blocks of one another. The merchants so far are enthusiastic. Says Martin Vatage, assistant manager of an Athlete's Foot: "You don't have to sign anything; you don't have to wait to call the credit-card company." Smart cards are like cash in another way: lose them, and you're out the money, although Chase's Mondex cards are encoded with the user's personal identification number, making a stolen card useless. Mondex's cards also allow consumers to transfer value among their own cards by means of an electronic "wallet," good for settling restaurant tabs and poker...
...emblem of our age, not to give in to the ravages of time. He was re-elected in part because he complied. He looks improbably young. His hair may be gray, but it's all there. He runs without gasping for air, and he's managed to lose 20 lbs. when it's all too easy to gain twice that...