Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoppers and retailers that the designer pieces are authentic. Anyone who tries to rip out the label and transfer it to a counterfeit designer garment will ruin the hologram. Clothing manufacturers hope the holograms will put a big dent in the more than $700 million in profits that they lose to knock-off artists each year...
Meanwhile, Reynolds and Pryor kept making movies, but no one paid much attention. (Remember Malone? Critical Condition?) Reynolds occupied himself as director at his dinner theater in Jupiter, Fla., and as executive producer of the TV game show Win, Lose or Draw. Pryor retreated into the shadows of his fading celebrity. Both stars made bigger news appearing with Johnny Carson or Barbara Walters to refute stories that they were ill with AIDS. Ringwald switched mentors, leaving John Hughes, who had made her a star with Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, for Warren Beatty. It didn't work. Their film...
...nothing else, the 1988 campaign gives Haig a chance to vindicate himself: he is not crazy, he is in control, and he feels he was right in his losing battle against his small-minded colleagues in the Reagan White House. Critics who accuse him of merely trying to boost future lecture fees are missing the point. Haig means it when he asserts that he would be a good President, tough and clear-minded on issues ranging from the deficit to arms control. His ideas are, in fact, sophisticated and sensible. Haig knows his chances are dim. He blames the system...
...goodwill gesture." As for Cordes, on the eve of the trial his keepers released his photograph along with a note urging West German authorities to "consider what happens in the coming days and draw the consequences." Bonn did not blink. Declared Klaus Arend, the presiding judge: "We would lose sight of our duty if we were to succumb to pressure...
...Obviously, it's better to win than to lose," Yale Coach Tim Taylor said...