Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spawned fleets of so-called killer trucks with bald tires, worn brakes and bleary-eyed drivers. While most major carriers can afford adequate maintenance programs, struggling trucking companies often put worn-out rigs on the road as a calculated gamble. Most often it is everyday motorists who stand to lose, since the odds are about 30 to 1 that car occupants will be the injured parties in a crash. Truck accidents in the U.S. have increased 26%, from 31,000 in 1980 to about 39,000 in 1985, while the number of miles traveled by the vehicles has gone...
...mention "very slow and fat," Becker dispatched one eminent adult after another with a crashing service and a somersaulting exuberance. They all left the grounds, Henri Leconte after Tim Mayotte, predicting two things: that Becker would be a fine player one day and that he would lose in the next round...
Businesses that have made the investment in child care say it pays off handsomely by reducing turnover and absenteeism. A large survey has shown that parents lose on average eight days a year from work because of child-care problems and nearly 40% consider quitting. Studies at Merck suggest that the company also saves on sick leave due to stress-related illness. "We have got an awful lot of comments from managers about lessened stress and less unexpected leave time," says Spokesman Art Strohmer. At Stride Rite Corp., a 16-year-old, on-site day-care center in Boston...
...week more than one-third of Oregon's $30 million strawberry crop was rotting because only about half the state's usual contingent of 20,000 migrant workers have shown up this spring. Declaring the situation an "unprecedented labor crisis," Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt predicted that the state would lose as much as $300 million of its usual $1 billion annual crop of fruits, vegetables and flowers...
Volcker's toughest customers in the past year or so have been the Reagan appointees on the Federal Reserve Board. In February 1986 Volcker came up on the losing side when his colleagues voted 4 to 3 to cut the discount rate that the Fed charges on loans to member banks. The chairman likes debate, but was furious to lose a vote and considered quitting. "The second floor ((where Volcker has his office)) was rocking a bit," says a former assistant. Following the episode, the official who resigned was not Volcker but his rival, Vice Chairman Preston Martin...