Word: losses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coming off a tough loss, Harvard should receive an extra adrenaline boost from playing a key rival on Homecoming Weekend...
Riding high on its own top ten status, the Crimson was brought down to Earth with a 1-0 loss at Wake Forest. Harvard followed up that loss with a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of then-No.17 Connecticut...
...can’t operate at a loss. We need a financial model that allows us to cover our costs. The Press doesn’t have one yet that is online only. If someone else has one that is online only, I don’t know what that is,” she says, pointing to the considerable expenses of publishing a book such as “Literary History,” with its multitude of contributors...
...Nobel Prize in Literature amidst accusations by his countrymen that he had sold out to the West. But Pamuk is no activist. In his latest, civil war and sectarian violence make an appearance only as background—instead it’s the relationship between modern love and loss, problematic in its own right, that becomes the stuff of his dreamlike meditations...
This being a Pamuk novel, of course, that happiness is short-lived. While the unabashed descriptions of lovemaking can at times verge on clumsy, the descriptions of loss are etched in sharp relief. Kemal, much to his regret, ends things with Füsun, and the next 350-odd pages chronicle his devastating remorse and unsuccessful attempts to win her back. In the process, he alienates his friends, breaks off his engagement, sacrifices his stake in a distribution and export firm, and even starts a production company called Lemon Films Inc. to finance the absurd scripts of his ex-lover?...