Word: loss
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After dropping two games to Princeton, including an 8-6 loss in which the Tigers scored all of their runs in the bottom of the ninth, Harvard faced elimination from the Ivy League race. Harvard swept Yale in four straight in its next series...
Thus, University dining halls, which served about 1100 students, faced stiff competition in their attempt to attract students, and, in fact, operated "at a heavy loss to the University" in 1909, according to University President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1878 in a letter to an HDA director...
...might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? It seems that the only loser would be the Standing Committee on the Core; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...
...Ross County, the challenge is to convert the old economy to the new, which often means better profits but less hiring. National City Bank of Columbus surveyed 50 companies in the county and found that they projected $165 million in investment over the next three years but a net loss in new jobs. Workers who can't keep up with changing technology are finding fewer and fewer plants that will hire them: they don't want the $5.50-an-hour jobs, but they don't have the skills for the $12-an-hour ones. Richard Rahrle is one who made...
Irene Wozny, 40, is an attorney for the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation in Baltimore. She is fortunate enough to have found work she enjoys, but every so often she gets derailed by chronic major depression, a mental illness that can cause a loss of self-esteem, an inability to concentrate and a negative outlook on life. Wozny has been troubled by the disease for as long as she can remember. Last year she learned of an experimental program for depression run by the National Institute of Mental Health, but in order to participate, she needed to arrive...