Word: loses
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...year. In scoring these victories, Daschle has a time-honored weapon at his disposal, one that Dole put to good use in the past--the filibuster. With enough party discipline, it makes the minority leader unstoppable. Whereas House Democrats have regularly fractured, Senate Democrats have yet to lose the seven defectors it would take to break a Daschle-backed filibuster...
...Mike Berry is a marvelously imaginative and responsive director," said Knowles. "If he leaves, I fear we shall all lose weight. He would be a very tough act to follow...
Dole had every reason to be in good spirits. Just a month ago, he lost New Hampshire to conservative columnist Patrick S. Buchanan and went on to lose three of the first five primaries. But, with Wisconsin still up in the air yesterday, he had piled up a 21-0 primary record since, and added a couple of caucus victories to boot. "Part of our strategy, of course, early on was to lose New Hampshire," Dole joked...
...should not be changed. More than two dozen major cities and counties -- including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta -- had challenged the count, charging that a significant underrepresentation of minorities had cost the cities hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Officials in Wisconsin, which stood to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to California if the census had been revised, were relieved by the ruling. Money may have been the motivation for the suit, but the big cities argued the undercount abridged their citizens' constitutional right to an equal vote. The Court ruled that...
...calibration of Peres' reaction reflects his dilemma that whichever way he moves, he has everything to lose. If his answer to the bombings is too soft, his constituents will throw him out of power as punishment and elect an opposition that threatens to freeze if not reverse the peace process. If Peres hits back too hard, he risks unraveling the peace by making an enemy of Arafat and hopelessly antagonizing the Palestinians. Between those alternatives there isn't much room. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Sam Lewis: "Both the peace process and Shimon Peres are on life support...