Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First of all, a victory by the opposition would mean the loss in a few months of all the economic results achieved over 20 years. No objective observer can believe that the policies inspired by the Common Program and planned by the leaders of the opposition would not have ruinous consequences for the French economy. The Socialists can obviously engage in doubletalk, making demagogic promises and then letting it be known that they are the best rampart against Communism. But if the promises made by Mr. Mitterrand are fulfilled in the first weeks following an opposition victory...
...surging currencies. In fact, he also urges the U.S. to float Treasury bonds abroad, selling them to banks, mutual funds and other investors in exchange for strong foreign money. The Treasury would guarantee to repay these loans in the same foreign currencies, so that the creditors would risk no loss even if the dollar fell still further...
...paintings. The swift, hooking line of his earlier work - that consummate rendition of energy by one of the master draftsmen ever to live in the U.S. - has softened to a re markable degree. One feels the removal of de Kooning's cubist under props, and it is a loss; the surface that remains is too gooey to sustain the flailing energies of brushwork and brusque disjunctures of color that de Kooning loads on it. Time and again, one is brought up short by a reflection that never occurs in the presence of his work from...
...think that Saturday night's 4-3 hockey loss to Yale best exemplified a season in which "Lady Luck" and "The Breaks" didn't pal around with the Crimson for more than a couple of games against Brown--well, my friend, you've got the heart of Jack O'Callahan...
Sabreman Bob Homer gathered the only other Crimson winning record, recovering from a 5-0 loss in his first bout to edge Friedberg, 5-4, on a disputed call in his second. In his last duel Homer crushed Marwell, 5-1, deftly parrying Marwell's attacks and counterattacking for touches...