Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you're racing into a headwind," Amory said, "it becomes a perseverance test, just like any other racing sport. [Northeastern] stressed the first 1000 meters of the race and probably lost because of it. They're probably just as disappointed to lose their first race of the season in bad conditions as we were last week...
...responsible for assembling a profitable portfolio of stocks, bonds and other investments. Professors Stephen Buser and Anthony Sanders plan to steer them into cautious investments. The goal is to match the percentage gain of the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Says Sanders: "Like any fund managers, if we lose a lot of money, we'll be terminated." Flunked...
Today Dolores Bennett is a Detroit institution. The mayor, the top police % officials and juvenile-court judges know her personally. So do the crack dealers whom she fights for the lives of her children. "Crack has made my job harder," she says. "We lose some of the young people who come here. But our track record has been very successful...
...Harvard will provide a great case study interms of organizing, whether they win or lose,"said Ken Gagala, a professor at the LaborEducation Service at the University of Minnesota
Prison officials set a one-hour time limit on tutoring sessions, a restriction that compounds the tasks faced by the Harvard program. PBH organizers complain of a continual struggle with the prison administration for time and support--a struggle they say they usually lose. In recent weeks, for instance, the Deer Island administration has required all tutors to pass an exhaustive background check, which slows down the process of bringing teachers to the prison. "I think they just don't want 20 people coming here. [Bureaucratic red tape] is the greatest ammunition they can throw at you," says Deer Island...