Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a conundrum: A gain for one team is a loss for the other. One side's good, pari passu, is the other's evil. Such are the stakes. One side has "possession." Who, or what, then, is "possessed?" And with what satanic implications? This is a question that drives postmodern man to crush an empty beer can on his forehead--and even to open another...
...glamour to her already glowing mystique. Then in 1973, at the age of 28, she was forced to retire by the onset of multiple sclerosis. When she died in 1987, admirers, particularly in her native Britain, canonized her as a musical genius and lamented her premature loss...
...regret the loss of opportunity to exchange ideas and philosophies," Miller says...
...Comeback Kid running on the adrenaline of one final campaign and overcoming flawed and divided opposition. It will be a great individual victory for him (perhaps his greatest--who would have thought a year ago that he would escape from this mess?), but it will be a massive civic loss...
Shelve all those adjectives -- Jordanesque, Jordanaire -- and stop trying to Be Like Mike: At age 35, Michael Jordan is once again walking away from the NBA. For once, Jordan was at a loss on the United Center court. The usual smoothness was gone, replaced by the emotion of trying to explain why he was quitting what he does best: His heart's not in it anymore, Jordan said: "Mentally, I'm exhausted, I don't feel I have a challenge...