Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stymied by unlucky bounces, the Harvard women's ice hockey team (6-6, 2-6 ECAC) dropped two contests to Northeastern last weekend. On Saturday, the Crimson committed two own goals in a 5-1 loss...
...been suggested for ending our national civic malaise. To the extent that pre-marital sexual promiscuity is correlated with high teen-age pregnancy and divorce rates, a greater emphasis upon the merits of chastity may help to alleviate some of the most pressing social ills resulting from our national loss of innocence...
...Wall Street Journal knows its business, but when it comes to running its own financial empire, the Journal's owner, Dow Jones & Co., has fallen woefully short. Despite a banner year at the paper, the 115-year-old company announced last month that it will register its first loss since going public 34 years ago. The culprit: Dow Jones Markets, the company's crippled financial-information unit (formerly called Telerate), which has been beaten badly by more sophisticated rivals such as Reuters and Bloomberg. Recently, the company scaled back an ambitious $650 million rescue plan and began firing senior managers...
...invention of bread. "Give me a break," says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "Those kinds of statements are not good science." What about the insulin-makes-you-fat thesis? "Ridiculous," says Stanford University endocrinologist Gerald Reaven. The secret to weight loss, he says, still lies with cutting calories. In fact, skeptics argue, when Zone dieters do lose weight, it's only because the Zone's rigid calculus delivers a high-bulk, low-calorie diet--hardly a revolutionary discovery...
Only later did Paul learn she had stumbled into "the Zone," which, if its adherents are to be believed, ranks as the biggest weight-loss breakthrough since, well, at least since Sweating to the Oldies. Count Paul as a true believer: she has given up modeling and is now a nutritionist at Sports Club L.A., where she guides her hard-bodied clientele into the Zone at the cost of $100 an hour...