Word: loses
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...farm products such as beef. That might have spurred another U.S. retaliation and started a spiral badly damaging economies and shattering financial markets in both countries-the mutually assured destruction theory of trade warfare. Which is why, in Kantor's view, as related by sources in Washington, sanctions lose much of their value after being applied; the threat is the thing. So, poised on the brink of doomsday, Kantor settled for what he took to be Japan's best offer...
...travel, after all? In order to have a paper sash over the toilet seat? To enjoy a comfortable, momentary change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...
...grandchildren "live 13 minutes away--I have counted it," and photos of them are interspersed with Paula's on her bookshelves. "Paula's dying and my grandchildren growing up are tied together in an organic way," she says. "I finally understood what life is about; it is about losing everything. Losing the baby who becomes a child, the child who becomes an adult, like the trees lose their leaves. So every morning we must celebrate what we have...
...Choral Director," news story, May 24, 1995) as if all parties concerned were simply delighted by the situation. In fact, the process was troubling and painful to many of Beverly's admirers, who will be left deeply saddened by her departure. As a result of the change, Harvard will lose a brilliant conductor and exemplary human being. At the most recent concert of the HRC, the spontaneous outpouring of support for Beverly from both audience and performers was moving tribute to her many outstanding qualities and a demonstration of support for her continued presence at Harvard...
...flight to Chicago; and how tortured he was returning to Los Angeles." Two: the neighbors. Three: as many as 10 witnesses who will accuse LAPD Det.Mark Fuhrmanof being a racist. Four: tough challenges to the DNA evidence. Five: The big one -- Simpson himself. "They've got nothing to lose," a source who has listened to the defense team discuss the issue told Willwerth. "They know they've got a hung jury. If there's one thing O.J. has spent a lifetime working at, it's playing...