Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bears needed only a tie to win the Ivy championship outright, but with the loss, will have to share the honor with Princeton as co-champions...
...Posting a league leading save percentage of .843 and winning Ivy League Player of Week honors in late September for her shutout performance against Yale and a narrow 2-1 loss to No. 1 Connecticut, Cowan seems a sure bet to win first team All-Ivy honors after her performance against Brown...
...reducing the damage we do to Earth's natural systems. We may not drive ourselves to the complete oblivion of biological extinction, but I fear that the Malthusian specters of famine, warfare and disease will rise in the comparatively short run (the next few centuries), coupled with an accelerating loss of human cultural diversity and, ultimately, quality of life...
...inner will to wake up to our current situation, to see the grimmer outlook around the corner and to choose to do something about it. We can stabilize our numbers and temper our patterns of consumption. We can work to stem the tide of ecosystem destruction and species loss. We can, in short, see ourselves for what we have become: the first global economic entity, a fascinating state arrived at through no end of cleverness but a state that is ultimately limited by the health and productivity of the natural system in which we live. We can, if we choose...
...more of the sun's energy back into space, making life even chillier. Beyond that, the Gulf Stream is tied into other ocean currents, and shutting it down could rearrange things in a way that would cause less overall evaporation. Because atmospheric H20 is an important greenhouse gas, its loss would mean even more dramatic cooling--a total of perhaps as much as 8[degrees]C (17[degrees...