Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witness the Columbia football team. For each game, the Lions invented new ways to lose. (Unfortunately, Columbia didn't copyright its playbook, 101 Ways to Fumble and Bumble Your Way to Sports Infamy, and now the Baltimore Orioles are stealing passages from it right and left...
...women's lacrosse team meets top-ranked Temple in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. Earlier in the year, the Owls had hooted past the Crimson, 13-8. They do it again, by the same score. The Crimson writes: "Losing is never easy to bear, but when you lose to the best team in the nation, it takes some of the sting out of it." Temple goes on to win the national championship...
...working classes, individuals undergoing extended spells of poverty and joblessness can no longer look to the social institutions of their community (such as churches, schools, community groups etc.) for support or to succesful Blacks as role models. In such an environment, joblessness as a way of life tends to lose its stigma and the connection between education and good jobs disappears from sight...
...Normally dormant parasites in the lungs become active, causing Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. As viruses and bacteria multiply out of control, competing for body cells and destroying them far faster than they can be replaced, victims can be stricken with severe cases of herpes and tuberculosis. What is more, they lose their resistance to some types of cancer, particularly Kaposi's sarcoma...
...late 20th century." According to him, the Great Game is simply too dangerous to play by the old rules in the age of nuclear weapons; the objectives must be changed so that the superpowers no longer deal with each other on a zero-sum, I-win-you- lose basis: "Less security for the U.S. compared to the Soviet Union would not be in our interest, since it could lead to mistrust and produce instability...