Word: losses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this year’s start, which has been, in a word, underwhelming. A season-opening, double-overtime tie with San Diego State was, if nothing else, a solid defensive performance. And even the harshest of critics would be hard-pressed to begrudge the next day’s loss at Connecticut, which received 15 first-place votes in the latest NCAA rankings. But it was obvious to fans and coaches alike that the Crimson was still very much in preseason form. A 1-0 win against struggling New Hampshire the following week provided a boost, though Harvard again...
America’s most successful children’s education show is still hitting all the right notes. This past Wednesday, just after the president’s health-care address, the 1-2-3 Gang hosted a candid conversation on PBS about job loss, housing woes, personal responsibility, and the importance of family and community. The message was wonderfully uplifting and unclouded: With honest hard work and each other’s help, we can get back to those sunny days...
...religious schools] where the Taliban are training young recruits and suicide bombers, but the ISI refuses to act." Now that Pakistani authorities are finally realizing that support of an Islamist revival in Afghanistan comes with its own risks at home, that attitude may start to change. Only with the loss of his Pakistani sponsors can Mullah Omar and his Taliban be coaxed into striking a truce with Karzai...
...Hizballah. After all, it was Hizballah, not the Lebanese government, that freed southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation in 2000, and it was Hizballah that turned back Israeli tanks in 2006. But on the back of several recent setbacks - the assassination of its operations chief last year, the electoral loss at the polls in June this year, the discovery this spring that an Israeli spy ring in Lebanon had bugged Hizballah's vehicles - Hizballah has lost some of its aura of invincibility, and its supporters no longer seem so ready to hit the front lines and the barricades...
Last week, excitement over a spate of good weather was tempered by the announcement that, in the last fiscal year, Harvard’s endowment plunged 27.3 percent. Its total value fell approximately $11 billion to $26 billion, a loss greater than the total endowments of all but three other universities in the country. This sobering news highlights the fact that some mistakes were made in Harvard’s investment strategies, prompting a need to reconsider the way we manage our money...