Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something likable as well as commendable about the movie. It has hustle, it makes a good stab at period ambience, and it takes some brave cuts at a knuckle ball of a subject. You are glad you came out to the ball park, even if the home team did lose in extra innings...
...people who have spent 50 years together are parted." She is sustained by her belief that "this isn't the end, and parting isn't forever." For those who take a more secular view of death, there are very practical reasons for the hospice philosophy. "We must not lose the chance," she says, "of making good on a great deal of untidiness in our lives, or of making time to pack our bags and say, 'Sorry, goodbye and thank you.' " There are many in the world today who, after watching death come calmly and peacefully to relatives, have good reason...
...even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take the test and get information about safe sex and needle use." Last week, reacting to concerns about confidentiality, the Centers for Disease Control announced...
...goal of Gorbachev's foreign policy is not to end the cold war and certainly not to lose it, but to continue the struggle with the subtlety and finesse that befits the modern man he is. He is cutting his losses not because he is a sudden convert to friendship and harmony and coexistence, not because he has lost the nationalist or ideological faith that underlies Soviet realpolitik, but because he knows that what the times demand is discrimination. And in an age of triage, that means concentrating on supreme geopolitical objectives and making sacrifices at the periphery...
Even so, many farmers would rather not have to hold Chubb to its word. Says Iowa Plaintiff Lewis Schoening, 52, who farms 1,200 acres and expects to lose two-thirds of his corn crop and almost half his soybeans if the dry weather continues: "I'd sure rather have the rain than the insurance...