Word: losing
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...court injunction allowed both athletes to compete on university teams while the lawsuit was pending. But Stanford stands to incur NCAA penalties if the students lose, because they will be ruled ineligible for a period of time during which they competed for the Cardinal...
...from around the world. "We have a lot of worried and unhappy people here at the bank," says Christopher Redfern, chairman of the World Bank Staff Association. The 75% of the employees who are from abroad are especially nervous. Reason: some of those laid off by the bank could lose their visas and have to move out of the U.S. within 30 days...
Another question: If the Constitution's system of checks and balances demands this kind of congressional surveillance of the presidency, why do the hearings so often lose their way in labyrinthine detail? Why don't Congressmen examine larger social and moral and political issues? The dense tangle of the Iran-contra affair, with its elaborate deceits and boxes within boxes, is, in the light of day, fairly simple. It involves two issues...
During 1984, after Congress cut off funds for the contras, North became obsessed with the men he referred to as freedom fighters. He kept a shoe box filled with pictures of contra leaders and talked about how he did not want to lose Nicaragua the way he saw the U.S. lose Viet Nam. North had been in the NSC longer than many of his superiors, and he began to believe in his own indispensability. "Being in the White House is heady," says a colleague. "You start carrying the cross by yourself, and if you don't do it, democracy falls...
...public that "members of the royal family are, in reality, ordinary human beings." Some commoners, however, have different ideas. "What keeps the royal family royal is the general suspension of disbelief that they are mere mortals," wrote Helen Mason in the Sunday Times. Without that disbelief, the monarchy might lose its appeal, and where would that leave the British press...