Word: loses
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...only took the Tigers 1:03 to regain the lead, and less than eight minutes later it was 8-3. During this period of time, Princeton took every bit of wind out of Harvard's sails and essentially doomed the Crimson to lose...
...case in court. "Legislatively, I don't know how much difference any one Senator's absence or presence makes," says Dave Mason, a political analyst with the conservative Heritage Foundation. "Packwood is clearly one of if not the most knowledgeable Senators on tax policy. If he leaves, the Republicans lose an able Senator. But in a year, it won't make any difference." --By Nina Burleigh/Washington
...Leeson caper gives capitalism a bad name. It is obscene that a single person can make and lose billions trading in derivatives and futures, an activity with absolutely no redeeming social or productive value whatsoever, while millions of people starve for want of a daily bowl of rice. I have no sympathy for Barings itself, but I do for its small investors. Sally Tobey Marshall, Minnesota AOL: SSTobey This shocking tale is almost unbelievable. This is not a crime committed by a young man alone; the responsibility for it goes right to Barings' top executives, whose lack of control...
Gingrich and his fellow leaders balked at the request late last week, calculating that it is riskier to rewrite the contract than simply to lose a vote on it. Besides, Gingrich knows that the prospects for tax cuts of any kind appear to be fading in the Senate. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon returned from a weekend retreat with his Senate Finance Committee and pronounced tax cuts all but dead. "What all of us have discovered when we go home," he said, "is that the public, over and over, is saying to us, As between the two, we'd rather...
...popular professor was stripped of a $25,000 teaching award that he had received in 1993--honoring him for, among other things, creating an "atmosphere of intimacy" in his enormous lecture courses--and told to go and sin no more. Any more complaints, the committee said, and Maas would lose...