Word: loses
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SOMETIMES THE TURNING POINT in a war comes not from a battlefield victory but from a private surrender of faith. It happens when leaders discover that they care less about what they hope to win than about what they stand to lose. And so last week, as a blizzard shut down the government they had just reopened, President Clinton and the Republican leaders of Congress were still saying that it was in America's interest to reach a budget deal, that they weren't very far apart, that they had everything to gain by making peace and much to lose...
...Lebed criticized the Kremlin's handling of the hostage crisis and warned that "there was no guarantee it won't happen again." In his declaration speech Zhirinovsky demanded, "End the war in the Caucasus! If you don't burn the rebels' bases with napalm, then you, Boris Nikolayevich, will lose the election on June 16, and I will do it on July 1!" Though crude, the threat contained a simple truth: the war in Chechnya mars any Yeltsin-image makeover, however impressive, and seriously hurts his chances for victory in June...
...journalist, I am disturbed by the report's sensationalist tone. As an adoptive parent, I am outraged by its categorical depiction of orphanages as "death camps." Far smaller political squalls recently caused the suspension of foreign adoptions in Paraguay and Ukraine. If China follows suit, some children will lose what at the moment is their best hope for a future...
Nobody in the computer industry--or on Wall Street--needs to be told what large application company McNealy has in mind. Microsoft, as the world's biggest maker of software for personal computers, has the most to lose should a new, non-Microsoft programming language take hold. Microsoft not only owns the operating system that runs 8 out of 10 desktop computers, but it dominates the market for most other software as well, from application programs (word processors, spreadsheets, encyclopedias) to programming languages to a wide variety of programming tools. All this would be undermined should Java catch on. "Java...
...point, Health Net's Dr. Ho seemed to lose patience with the doctors' ambivalence. "Each of these issues--I just want to be clear about this. This is not a Utopian society that everybody can be everything to all people and paid for by somebody else. We have fiduciary responsibilities to our employers to the tune of about $1.5 billion worth of premiums paid to us every year to manage their health-care premium dollars responsibly . because in general, insurance and payers and physicians have been ineffective in holding that fiduciary responsibility...