Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the relationship between Chicago and its Cubs has been a part of that baseball tradition. The purists ask: why would fans be so fascinated by a perennial loser that they would fill up Wrigley on so many summer afternoons? Is it the fact that the Cubs always lose that draws in the crowd...
...help make up for the earnest but second-rate play on the diamond. Fans know that any player who becomes a star will soon be promoted to a higher league. "We can't really highlight a player," says Bill Terlecky, general manager of the Maine Phillies, "because we might lose him." One consolation: many minor-league buffs can boast of having seen Dwight Gooden and other superstars play when they were fresh out of high school...
...clearance to ride it. When a trainee is struck by enemy fire, he actually feels the hit. Indeed, the simulation can be dangerously % realistic. "We had to turn this one down," says Ray McCabe, flight- simulation supervisor at the Army's Fort Bragg. "We had a lot of guys lose teeth or have their nose broken from the impact...
...Security Council, a forum that it had assiduously avoided since Resolution 598 was passed over its objections last July. For another, the shootdown gave relatively moderate political figures a chance to argue the futility of continuing a war that, they insisted, the U.S. would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions. Tehran has long complained about U.S. warships' protecting gulf shipping from Iranian attack. Iran has accused Washington, correctly, of providing military intelligence to Iraq and more recently charged, altogether incorrectly, that U.S. troops helped reclaim the Fao peninsula. Says a U.S. military...
...picketing the contractors," Muprhy said. "We're trying to address the non-union workers. Some of the non-union workers have spoken to us, but they're afraid to lose their jobs if they do talk...