Word: loss
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...Hochschild is at no loss for characters in this story; one of the earliest we meet is Sir Henry Morton Stanley, of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame. Stanley is hired by King Leopold II of Belgium--according to one of Leopold's best PR men, Henry Shelton Sanford--in order to create "a chain of posts or hospices, both hospitable and scientific, which should serve as means of information and aid to travelers...and ultimately, by their humanizing influences, to secure the abolition of the traffic in slaves." Stanley was the first to betray this rhetoric in service to Leopold...
While the Crimson women cruised to a 27-5 victory, the men suffered an unfortunate 19-8 loss...
...cooperative, any profit must be returned to its members proportional to their purchases. The rebate for the previous fiscal year was announced in October as 4.5 percent. Since the standard Coop profit on a textbook sale is 2.5 percent lower than the rebate, the Coop actually takes a loss on textbook sales to Coop members...
Compensating for the Engineers' loss of their two leading scorers to graduation are senior forward Danny Riva, who has five goals and six assists for the season, and freshman forward Matt Murley, who has two goals and 11 assists...
...This loss puts everything in perspective,"Sullivan said. "We need a better understanding ofthe defensive end. Lehigh is not a Big East team.They're a team that's at our level. I want tobelieve we're somewhere in between the team thatbeat Boston College and the team that lost [onSaturday...