Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornell must beat Princeton and lose to Columbia...
...Princeton must beat Yale and lose to Cornell...
...this theory on for size: people value money desperately because they value one another desperately; thus the cause of panic in the recent stock-market plunge is not that people will lose their dollars but that they will lose their sense of community. Did someone holler, "Crackpot!"? But look...
Most of the harm that brokers may face, however, is financial. An estimated 24,000 of the securities industry's 300,000 workers are expected to lose their jobs in the market slowdown. Many more may forfeit their six-figure bonuses. The economic ripple effects will be felt most strongly on the Eastern Seaboard, especially in New York City, where sales of luxury cars, expensive homes, jewelry and other trappings of Wall Street success are already starting to suffer. The city could also be hurt by a falloff in tax revenue from the financial industry, which last year amounted...
Wolfe's main conceit is that the upper classes are especially vulnerable to prejudicial treatment if they lose their insulation. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue and Southampton, the leading bond salesman at Pierce & Pierce, learns this harsh lesson when he is arrested for hit-and-run driving and plummets from a "Master of the Universe" to "the Great White Defendant," the dream of every ambitious $36,000-a-year assistant district attorney...