Word: loses
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Although average attendance for regular-season games reportedly dropped 20 percent from a year ago to 25,257 and major league clubs will together lose more than $300 million, the hear's and minds of many fans have faithfully returned. Attendance figures mean nothing in light of recent events. A week ago Wednesday, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner criticized the lack of fan support his team was receiving as New York made its final push for a playoff spot...
...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...
However, the team cannot afford to lose another league game. The game was perhaps a warning against over-confidence...
...gain weight over the holidays, and you can't lose...
...lose your temper with a friend...