Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Losing the respect the Harvard lacrosse program has earned throughout the country should be motivation enough to never let a loss like Saturday's happen again...
...Harvard, the last-second loss was the culmination of a frustrating...
...Nixons were devastated by the loss of their daughter. But their faith was unshaken: it was God's will to take Shannon. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania law held them responsible for her death, even though their lawyer, Steven Passarello argued that Shannon was more than able to decide for herself whether she wanted to follow the sect's doctrine or seek medical help. William Haberstroh, the prosecuting attorney, countered that a life-or-death situation demanded parental intervention even for a mature minor. The judge's instruction that the case was one of law, not of religion, practically sealed the verdict...
...then Signet called in the loan. At first Barbour refused to pay the $1 million balance due. When the Youngs' lawyers threatened a lawsuit, the forum paid up $500,000, but that still left an angry Young with a $500,000 loss--sparing the R.N.C. from having to dip into campaign finds to pay off the rest of the debt...
...Jerry's gives away a stunning 7.5% of its pretax profits and goes to great lengths to buy from minority or disadvantaged suppliers. (The company's earnings fell last year as sales of superpremium ice cream dipped; for the recent first quarter, Ben & Jerry's reported a $1.06 million loss.) Detractors call such contracts posturing and note that Ben & Jerry's has been fighting a lawsuit by a minority supplier that claims to have been dumped. Still, Ben & Jerry's--which sets forth its philosophy in a newly published book, Double-Dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money...