Word: losing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That's too young to coast. I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next 20 years. Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. There are worse things to be, I suppose . . . lazy and poor comes to mind...
Whether or not man and machine adapt, the public should be ready to blow a farewell kiss to the 25 cents stamp. Costs are rising 112 times as fast as inflation, and the Postal Service is expected to lose $1.6 billion this fiscal year. The 30 cents stamp may be here...
Young though they may be, the freshmen and sophomores who comprise the rest of the ladder aren't lacking in experience. Take, for example, freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz, both of whom have yet to lose a game this season. Their squash backgrounds are impressive, indeed. Clark was the number-one U.S. under-18 player last year. Horwitz was right behind Clark at number...
...from capital-flight money?" asks one of the mavens. "It will be more than drug money we come up with, and what happens when we stumble over a really major company and hold up its dirty linen? Maybe the banks will start turning in the narcotics people rather than lose their biggest customers...
Gorbachev has changed, but it is a change of the head, not the heart. At a time when he is using his head, we should not lose ours. In providing help for Gorbachev, we should adhere to a fundamental principle. If his ultimate goal is to make life better for the Soviet people, we should help him. But we should not help him if his ultimate goal is to make life more difficult for the West by using Western subsidies to build an economically and militarily stronger Soviet Union with the same aggressive foreign policy...