Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poland is a stubbornly proud and patriotic country, and no greater recognition can come to this nation than to have one of its own made Bishop of Rome. More than once, I felt tears well up as people told of their joy but also of their sadness over the loss of a friend. Cardinal Wojtyla was truly loved here...
...years of Israeli occupation of the peninsula have heightened the Egyptians' sense of loss. As a "last mission," President Anwar Sadat dreams of building a shrine on Mount Sinai at which Christians, Jews and Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...
...Senate from Oklahoma, a heavily Democratic state. But he is a restless and supercharged man, although he usually fools people by keeping his emotions tightly reined, and he could find no more heady challenge than football. He accepts the frustrations and the sleepless Sunday nights, when he replays a loss so vividly in his mind that he can see every detail: Punter Steve Little fumbling the ball against Dallas, for instance...
Dining hall workers interviewed last week said that although the contract contains no provisions for increased pension plans and dental health coverage, they believe they could not win a strike against the University. Nor, they added, do they want to risk the financial instability or possible loss of jobs a strike brings...
...loss gives them a little thing to yell about and we'll get them in the Easterns next week." Debbie Vogel, the Harriers' manager said after the 29-37 defeat...