Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--In what must have been the cruelest, most heartbreaking loss ever suffered by a Harvard cross country team, the Princeton Tigers upset the favored Crimson in the Heptagonals here at Van Cortlandt Park yesterday afternoon...
...also a game the Crimson could not afford to lose, if only for reasons of pride. The Tufts squad's loss dropped its record to a meager 1-8-2, while Harvard's improved...
...wait and see--we'll have a championship-calibre squad at Radcliffe in the future. And we'll also beat those guys one day."--Debi Field, November 8, 1975, after 4-0 loss to Princeton. "We've got a shot--we're going...
...surprising choice was not universally hailed. Many Italians, particularly in the hierarchy, saw the loss of the papacy after 4½ centuries as a defeat and a reprimand. Noting that Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front...
Nervousness about the weak dollar and inflation conspired to bring a startling break in stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average last week tumbled more than 59 points, to 838, its worst one-week loss in history. Indeed, currency and stock markets seem to be getting locked into a vicious circle. When a plunge in the dollar causes stock prices to drop, foreign moneymen read the stock slide as an indication that Americans are losing faith in their own economy, and they unload still more dollars...