Word: loses
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Okay, next problem. After an opponent's score, the Crimson has a tendency to lose a step, for whatever psychological reason. For instance, when Penn knocked home a goal midway through the second half of Saturday's game. Harvard never really recovered and went on to lose...
...that students did not reject PUCC in itself. In their disdain for the council, students remained ignorant of PUCC's activities and simply voted for the guy on their 1-M team. But this theory ignores the fact that two PUCC leaders lost races that were harder to lose than to win, where students chose five out of six or seven candidates...
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. When the Republican Party planned its 10-candidate presidential showdown in New Hampsire, which will be carried live on CNN, who knew that O.J. Simpson would be talking to Brokaw and Couric at the same time? The CNN show starts at 8pm ET and runs to 9:30pm. Not much chance viewers will stick around. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
...test gene treatments on human subjects as early as possible. No matter how promising a laboratory result is, clinical trials with real patients are more likely to pique Wall Street's interest. The risk is that expectations will be raised so high that the public--and investors--will lose faith in the technology when reversals occur. Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Diego, says that because "clinical trials, so far, have very little promise of curing patients," she prefers to think of her attempts to use gene therapy to boost the immune systems...
...Newark to meet the Pope is a reminder that the Catholic vote will be vital to Clinton's reelection chances: "The Democrats have lost one big bloc in F.D.R.'s old New Deal coalition, white Southerners (mostly Protestant but also those who are Catholic), and cannot afford to lose the other big bloc of ethnic Catholics. Hispanics and blacks are strongly Democratic, whether Catholic or not, and so are Jews, but it's impossible to win without solid support from the 60 million American Catholics. F.D.R. floated to victory with an overwhelming Catholic margin, but Eisenhower made big inroads...