Word: losing
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...with those with unstable work and family backgrounds. "The best predictor of patient outcome is the patient," says Thomas Seessel, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism. "Those who are steadily employed, married and in the upper middle class are more likely to succeed. They have more to lose." In response to allegations that some centers have exaggerated how well their patients do after treatment, Congress has ordered the NIAAA to investigate treatment programs...
Although he will almost certainly lose his nonvoting seat on the ruling Politburo, the former Moscow party chief is expected to remain on the policymaking Central Committee. In his new post he will hold the No. 2 position in a department responsible for one of the most important yet trouble-prone sectors of the Soviet economy. Yeltsin will help oversee large- scale construction projects, a field in which he specialized when he was a young engineer assisting in the development of the industrial center of Sverdlovsk...
Adelphi (14-3-2 overall) has only been a Division I soccer program since 1976. In that year, the Panthers made their first trip to the NCAA playoffs, losing in the first round. Two years later, Adelphi received another tourney bid--only to lose in the same round to the same team...
...attitude that you can't lose, you can beat anybody," Phillips said. "That's how I felt out there today...
...Coaches, administrators, alumni and reporters all cause damage when they lose sight of the purpose of a college soccer program. A college soccer program is not set up to develop American, British or any other nationality of soccer players. That's good, too because realistically it could not do that. A soccer player's career lasts 27 years from the age of 10 until about the age of 37. The four years from 18 until 21--at Harvard roughly a total of 240 hours of training--don't determine future success. The nine years from 10-18, the environment...