Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moved to New Jersey. It wasn't just their ineptitude--the Mets and Knicks were not exactly paragons of eptitude, and I've always loved them. It was the way they lost that got me so disgruntled. Too frustrating, too stupid and too boring. The Mets and Knicks could lose in their own funny ways and I'd still be as gruntled as ever...
With nothing to lose, Harvard picked up the intensity against Stanford on Saturday. The top-ranked Cardinal had to be stunned to find the Crimson stroke-for-stroke, shot-for-shot, and goal-for-goal with it for two of the four quarters...
...Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In the throes of a quest for their own independence, nationalists in those areas are denouncing the Russians living among them as "occupiers" and "migrants." They are enacting voting laws that disenfranchise many Russians and are forcing them to learn the local languages or lose their jobs...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger may have made a mistake in attributing the statement to Howard, but there's no mistaking the element of truth in the notion--an element that Boller and George seem to overlook. They've checked out their quotes in a scholarly way, but somehow they lose the pizazz of the lines as they go along...
...real problem stems from high school, when teen superstars lose sight of academics in pursuit of the NBA money. Golenbock realizes that young athletes must be taught that they must study to become Michael Jordan, because most will never become Michael Jordan...