Word: loss
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...secondary effects" the committee worries about include loss of "study or sleep because [students] are worried when a friend gets so drunk he or she does nor return home until the next morning" and students who must "baby sit" their drunk roommates on weekends...
Adjusting for inflation, the selling price of $147 million is roughly one-fourth of the plant's construction costs. In today's dollars, the loss would be equivalent to approximately half a billion dollars--not counting the returns the University could have earned had the money been invested rather than sunk into construction costs...
Harvard returns from the Bay Area following its monstrous upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Although Harvard was eliminated Monday night in an 82-64 loss to ninth-seeded Arkansas, the fans were excited about the team's history-making victory on Saturday, when Harvard became the first 16 seed ever to win a game in the Tournament...
...Everyone was disappointed about the loss, but overall everyone was proud that they had such a strong performance Saturday night," said sophomore Kristen Schaeffer, an outside hitter on the women's volleyball team. Her team attended the victory rally in lieu of practice...
...Beating Stanford outweighed the disappointment of the loss [to Arkansas]," Schaeffer said...