Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competition, but not about community and relationship. Since we're all aiming for impressive positions that are in short supply in society, such as United States senator, chief of residency or mutual fund manager, we must fight for what we want. This means some of us are going to lose. Competition's very nature, then, fosters the feeling that life means surviving in fundamental and existential solitude. "I am alone," a friend told me once. "If I don't fight to get on top, somebody else will get there first...
...person, however, will step forward bravely and confess that his or her life hasn't turned out at all like expected. Our hearts will skip a beat as we wonder how our former classmate failed. The truth, of course, is that the only failure is the person who loses their inner moral compass, who gives up hope, who becomes part of the system instead of a voice urging--sometimes in the face of public opinion--to change it. It is of no use to profit in the world if we lose our soul...
...Everyone is getting itchy," Hirsch said. "We want another shot at those teams. All the guys in the boat that were there last year to lose to Princeton by two hundredths of a second want another chance. We are really excited...
...continue to trend the way we have been trending in September and October, we could stand to lose a substantial amount of money," he said...
...Crimson did lose a good deal of senior talent to graduation last year, especially leading- scorer Mike Eckert, but Ferrucci and Bevilacqua had more than enough talent to pick up any offensive slack...