Word: loss
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Christopher died of massive injuries, including a broken neck and loss of blood. Two of the dogs were shot and killed by police at the scene, the third later that day; their owners, Jeffrey and Sabine Davidson, were arrested and charged with unintentional second-degree murder, a crime punishable by 11 to 51 years in prison...
...party. And Jospin, who barely lost to Chirac in the last presidential election, has promised big changes. He and his allies said they would fight France's stubborn 12.8% unemployment rate by creating 700,000 government-backed jobs, reduce the workweek from 39 to 35 hours with no loss in pay, suspend planned privatizations, cut the sales tax and raise the minimum wage. The leftist platform, if implemented, threatens to send the deficits soaring and derail French chances of meeting the tough criteria for joining Europe's single currency, the euro. With Germany racked by increasing doubts about...
...among the many hundreds of distinguished and powerful people who have come to honor the son of Time Warner's CEO, Gerald Levin--who speak for his worth. Jonathan, 31, was murdered last week in his home. For his family the grief is personal, unbearable. For his students the loss is nearly as great. That one of the two accused killers turns out to be a former student provides an especially mindless end for a man whose work concerned reason and learning. He was tortured and shot to death...
...four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be fantastic or melodramatic, lighthearted or soul-splitting; the people in them may look exotic and speak other languages. Yet compared with the heroes of U.S. films, they are closer to us--almost inside us. They offer artful lessons in getting through a summer, or a life...
...statement in Robert Wright's commentary on how people cope with technological change [VIEWPOINT, May 26] was, "Computers don't take people's jobs by acting like people." Kasparov's frustrating moment did not come after his initial loss; that moment arrived when he realized that even though he was the consummate professional, he couldn't adapt and think like his nemesis. HENRY SIKORSKI Garden City...