Word: losses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for the Administration's near loss was its own legislative brinkmanship. Vice President Spiro Agnew rejected Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's argument that the Democratic offer of a five-month extension was the best the Administration was likely to get. Agnew telephoned President Nixon in Thailand, won his approval for an attempt to force a vote on the surtax. Agnew then threw down the challenge to the Democrats and demanded that Congress pass nothing less than a full year's extension...
...regret that the Scientist, heartbroken over the loss of the prospective fall meeting at Suffolk, has been unable to complete his racing selections for today. --The Editors...
...other race. In the Rumson Handicap at Monmouth against some of the classier New York sprinters the animal gave up against class horses, knowing that it had been overmatched. Never better than fifth the entire race, the horse finished sixth, thirteen lengths in arrears. The loss was not the jockey's fault as the comment was--"well placed, tired." Last week the horse won by twelve lengths against a dismal Rockingham Park field. This Saturday Coup Landing faces another lackluster array of local talent with the exception of the Eddie Anspach trained Red's Copy who would show a touch...
Thus the program suffers a loss from the very beginning because of the reliance on an outside agency for recruitment...
...this should happen it would be a great loss to both welfare recipients and taxpayers--for only through job placement are the welfare rolls going to decrease' and only when the poor are given stimulus or an incentive to work are they going to forfeit 'gift' aid for a full time occupation...