Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss was the seventh straight for the Crimson, and one of many in which the team squandered a first-half lead...
...much better effort than we did two weeks ago," co-captain Tom Fallows said, referring to a loss to Princeton on the Charles...
...matter what she did, Cindy Smith just couldn't shed the 60 lbs. she'd gained during her pregnancy nine years ago. She went through over-the-counter weight-loss pills, liquid diets, starvation diets--always with the same result. "I would try it for about a week," says Smith, 38, a customer-service manager at a Houston bank. "I'd lose maybe 5 to 10 lbs., then get discouraged and end up dropping...
...other overweight patients maintained a low-fat diet, exercised--and swallowed a medication called orlistat three times a day. "My clothes started fitting a lot looser after a month," she says. Today Smith is down to 150 lbs., her prepregnancy weight. Not only that, but she's maintaining the loss and hopes to drop even more...
Some of the sketches reminded the faithful why they were there: to fight the loss and loneliness that attend AIDS and other human calamities. A woman (Elizabeth Franz) whose son had died in a car accident was comforted by the beautiful singing of the woman (Audra McDonald) whose car had hit him. Two G.I.'s (Brian Dennehy and George Wendt) play a game of Botticelli while waiting for, and then gunning down, a lone enemy soldier. At the funeral for a young man dead of AIDS, his lover (Tim Robbins) tries to reach out to the dead man's mother...