Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major parties' loss of influence and inability to present creative policies have invited challenge. Party discipline is wanting in Congress and party loyalty is wanting among voters. In the last presidential election, close to half of all voting-age Americans shunned the polls. The Citizens Party may be able to engage those who have lost faith in the political process...
...Crimson back four adapted quickly to the loss of Sergienko. Dennis Perese, up from the J.V. since mid-season, filled in admirably as he had for John Duggan when Duggan sat out the second half of the Penn game. Perese played calm, intelligent soccer, showing poise that belies his inexperience...
...Richie Horner, it had been a lackluster afternoon, with two cellar-dwellers fighting an emotional, scrappy battle for a rare victory. But Harvard's 41-26 win over Pennsylvania's Quakers was a win all the same, only the second this year for the Crimson and eighth straight loss this season for the winless Philadelphians...
Miller's announcement last week was deliberately timed to follow Chrysler's latest loss report, the better to make the Administration's motives seem purely economic. The Secretary explained that the higher aid package was necessary in part because the company now needed "greater resources than were apparently required in August." Actually, the Administration had known that Chrysler's third-quarter deficit would be huge, and in fact last September the company had forecast an even larger loss...
Government help of some sort is plainly needed if banks are to be persuaded to continue to finance Chrysler. Despite five profitable years, the company has run up a net loss in the 1970s of $100 million, and more than half the red ink has come this year alone. So far the 1979 deficit totals $722 million, and the full-year loss could easily top $1 billion, an all-time record for U.S. industry...