Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...polls (although that played no small part), not only because he was getting trampled in the battle of Pennsylvania Avenue (a skirmish in which he seemed to shrink rather than grow), but because every morning when Bob Dole walked into the well of his beloved Senate, he could lose himself in the mechanics of legislation, forget for a while that he had a greater task remaining before him than cobbling together a Republican majority for a cloture vote...
...loved could he prove to himself--and to the voters and to Beltway know-it-alls--that there was something he valued even more. Only by giving up everything could he show he was willing to risk everything. As the song goes, now he had nothing left to lose...
...inflation, significant hard-currency reserves, a generally more open, demand-driven economy. When citing his achievements did not improve his standing, Yeltsin argued that the corner has been turned on austerity. "The most difficult period is over," he said as recently as last month. "We have survived. Don't lose hope." Each time he used that line, he was booed...
...says a Westerner who has been offering advice to the Yeltsin campaign, "this election will come down to a race between someone people hate and someone they fear." That means "never failing to remind them of what they stand to lose. Since Yeltsin can't win on his record, he must turn the question into what kind of future Russians want. There have been about 20 focus groups, and some of the polling is quite sophisticated," the adviser continues. "As in America, the battle is for the center. In Russia that's about 20% of the vote. They...
After three years of intensive involvement with the Russians, I am convinced that the safer world we are building is more likely to endure if market democracy sinks deeper roots in Russian soil. We should not lose sight of the progress already made: Russians are now empowered by the ballot and by free enterprise, informed by an independent press and no longer cut off from the world by minefields and barbed wire. Over half their economy is in private hands, guided increasingly by the laws of the market and the will of the consumer. The longer this process continues...