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Word: losses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes you wind up with the short end of the stick, as the women's basketball team learned last night by losing to a fair-to-middling squad from Bentley College 62-57. The loss lowered the squad's record...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Bentley Beats Women Cagers | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard hockey team lost its second game of the season last night on a goal by the Terriers' John Bethel with less than four minutes to play. And that, coupled with the tear-your-eyebrows-out overtime loss to Dartmouth, gives you an idea of how close the Crimson has come to being 5-0 at this point, instead...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.U. Screws Icemen | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...this spending is simply wasteful. Part of the problem lies in wrong incentives. Hospital administrators are one group which has a disincentive for cost cutting. Instead of being rewarded for making wise decisions that cut costs, administrators receive less revenue the following year and, as a result, face a loss in staff and, eventually, patients. Local regulatory boards also have a disincentive to close down or contain costs in local hospitals because these costs are almost always being covered by money outside the region of the hospital. Closing these hospitals would only serve to create unemployment in the local communities...

Author: By George G. Scholomite, | Title: The Carrot and the Sick | 12/7/1977 | See Source »

Harvard's born-again basketball team matched Boston College in baskets from the floor, with 27 buckets, in Saturday's 84-70 loss at the IAB. In other words, if B.C. had missed all its free throws, the game would have gone to overtime. In other words, it wasn't even a contest...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: B.C. Knocks Off Cagers, 84-70 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...crimson's only loss came when Leslie Feder--substituting for Lowry, who aggravated the tendonitis in her kness--lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fencing Squads Slice SMU | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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