Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loss devastated us," junior Sarah Brandt said. "We got killed. Dartmouth played out of their skulls...
...disheartening loss--but the Crimson rebounded with two seasons that saw them win a combined 46 games, a Beanpot title, an ECAC playoff title and make it to the NCAAs twice and the NCAA Final Four once...
...television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer Yin Zhixian. "It's unlikely that there will be major changes, because everyone is a beneficiary of Deng's policies." Thirtyish Zhu Xun, manager of the Shanghai office of a German...
...government does something about its ailing state enterprises. These decrepit firms, employing some 100 million workers, are swamped by debt, surplus labor and bloated inventories. Their out-of-date equipment and Marxist management, corrupt and incompetent, make them hopelessly uncompetitive. Half the 100,000 enterprises operate at a loss, and one-third barely turn a profit. At one time or another, half of all state employees have been furloughed or have had their pay or hours cut. Workers earn most of their income moonlighting for private firms...
...Brad Pitt role in Legends of the Fall, becoming something rather old-fashioned, a character lead. But he worked in the kind of films--youth-oriented and fringy--that middlebrow traditionalists, the people who sniffishly deplore actors who "just play themselves," never go to see. This is their loss; they have missed out on the filmography of the most interesting actor...