Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back in the 17th century, when the only legitimate Sunday excursion was a trip to church, the rules did not seem so unreasonable. However, as times began to change, the laws did not and numerous conflicts began to arise surrounding both the absence of after-hours entertainment and the loss of revenues due to mandatory Sunday closings...
Fellow candidates and Cambridge residents offered several possible reasons for Triantafillou's unexpected loss...
...expressed his disappointment with her loss, saying "she was the only leader of the council interested in the people of the city...
After that loss, Triantafillou resigned from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), Cambridge's liberal political party and a longtime endorser of her campaign...
...succeed, who gets hurt? Not consumers. Federal law limits their liability to $50, and many card issuers don't even collect that. It's the merchants who take the hit - standard bank practice when the cards are not present at the point of sale (when they are present, the loss is the bank's). Address verification and other screening programs can help merchants avoid bad sales. Yet these tools are not that widely used, notes Bill Brown, a director at VeriFone, a secure-payment-software maker. "To me, that says they're not losing that much." MORE...