Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is anything Republicans want more than simply to win the argument, it is to hand a loss to Bill Clinton. And now, having seized the center on welfare reform, the budget and other G.O.P. causes, the President threatens to outflank the Republicans again--this time on the one piece of ideology that holds the party together. Tax cuts, declared Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995, were the "crown jewel" of his Contract with America...
...matter what Nevada decides, Tyson's career is in deep trouble. For the first two rounds of the return bout with Holyfield, Tyson was plainly and simply outboxed. And it wasn't the first time. Before he went to prison in 1992, and especially after his 1990 loss to Buster Douglas, the decline of his skills was the talk of the boxing world. What had made Tyson invincible was sheer power. When he couldn't cancel opponents within the first four rounds, he was out of ideas. When Tyson was in his mid-20s, a consensus was growing that...
...Phoenix (1966): "He said that he just did not want to live anymore." He withdrew into himself, built a moat around the castle of his isolation. He fed on memories of Gloria--so painful because they were so sweet--and on the survivor's inevitable feelings of loss and guilt...
Death is not a happy ending in Hollywood movies. A beloved man is dead, and we mourn, for our loss at least as much as his. But this is a cause for celebration. Today a new generation, raised on facetiousness and arid sensation, has the thrilling duty to discover Stewart's crucial contribution to the movies that made the movies great. The young may also take instruction from his exemplary life story. How simple it was--we would like to say how simply American. Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country and died for love...
BRAIN DRAIN Loss of brain tissue--something that occurs naturally with aging--seems to be greater in older people who have high blood pressure than in those elderly with normal readings...