Word: losings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided,"he recounted modestly, days after the event, "that after all they may as well lose a little money," and he advanced with measured stride to the jam table...
...this situation, the old party battle between, moderates and radicals, intellectuals and unionists should intensify. Whatever the result, the Laborites clearly did not lose on Thursday because of Hugh Gaitskell, who ran a tough and expert campaign. Instead, the Labor Party lost because they failed to convince the voters that they offered a coherent and responsible alternative to a smoothly operating Tory government...
...told, Du Pont estimated that G.M.'s 744,000 stockholders and Du Font's 209,419 stockholders would lose, in taxes and stock values, about $5 billion. Said the court, applauding Du Font's presentation, and needling the Government: "The testimony [offered] by the defendants, that of men of wide experience and great responsibility for investing funds and marketing securities, must be given great weight. The type of evidence introduced by the Government, consisting of the testimony of economists without practical experience or management responsibility, cannot overcome the weight of such testimony." Then, borrowing almost the same...
...officers and directors of Du Pont and the two other Du Pont family-controlled companies: Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which controls Christiana Securities Co., which in turn controls Du Pont. Furthermore, no longer may Du Pont and G.M. have mutual officers, directors and employees. That means that G.M. will lose five of its 33 directors* unless they choose to give up their Du Pont positions. Altogether, said the court, these restrictions will amply satisfy the Supreme Court's charge to him to "eliminate the effects" of the Du Pont-G.M. tie. Wrote LaBuy, in the meat...
...university participates in intercollegiate athletics. "It is interesting to note that at Moscow, the best university in the Soviet Union, as at Harvard, the best university in the United States, the athletic teams almost always lose," Azrael says...