Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roots in revival-tent Pentecostalism. He is re-emphasizing faith healing and is reaching for his old-time constituency as his income slides (from $88 million in 1980 to $55 million in 1986, according to the Tulsa Tribune) and his largely vacant City of Faith Medical Center continues to lose money ($10.7 million last year). Roberts has quietly tried to sell or lease the medical complex, and is negotiating with a subsidiary of National Medical Enterprises to manage...
When he returned to Annapolis in the fall, limping in his stiff knee brace, North felt he had no time to lose. He pushed himself to the limit, studying ferociously. There was no such thing as free time; he spent school vacations getting his paratrooper's wings and learning military survival tactics...
...rule that requires broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial public issues. A station that runs an editorial opposing nuclear power, for instance, must give the pronuclear side a chance to express its views. If the station fails to do so, it risks FCC censure; at worst, it could lose its license...
...religious agencies, posting the Ten Commandments in public classrooms or, in a decision two weeks ago, laws that require teaching "creation science" alongside evolution. Citing the establishment clause, the pro-choice Abortion Rights Mobilization hopes the courts will force the Roman Catholic Church to stop pro-life politicking or lose its tax exemption...
Arbitration aside, how can the current law be improved? One common response from media executives is to compel the loser to pay the winner's legal bills, a standard British practice. Because most plaintiffs ultimately lose, that would greatly reduce the media's expenses but could also have the practical effect of cutting off litigation, except to the best-financed plaintiffs...