Word: lost
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Sensing this attitude, many delegates expressed concern. "Britain feels that the task of leadership is onerous," said Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman. "It has lost the power and the will to use it." After "centuries of responsibility," agreed Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, "a mood of disenchantment and withdrawal is all pervasive. Britain has decided to put British interests first." To an extent, that is true. Britain simply has had it as the Commonwealth doormat, and the other members are beginning to acknowledge this change of mood and to handle the crotchety old schoolmaster with uncharacteristic care...
...fishing captain whose sighting helped in the recovery of the bomb from the sea demanded $5,000,000; he got only medals from two grateful governments. Francisco Alarcon Cano, whose private school was shuttered for six weeks because a bomb fragment landed on his patio, sought $733 in lost tuition. He got nothing. "We may have made a mistake," says a 16th Air Force officer of the schoolmaster's case. "But the door is always open if he wants to come back." The point that escapes the Americans is that Alarcon, and others like him, will not come back...
There is a shortage of potatoes; two-thirds of the crop has been lost, as has nearly half of the corn and one-third of the rice. Nearly 700,000 sheep and about 300,000 head of cattle have perished. Losses in agriculture and livestock alone are estimated to have reached $180 million...
...Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...
...steel skis. Repairs were all but impossible in the sub-zero weather, since the flesh of the snowmobilers' hands tended to freeze to the metal of their machines. Several snow mobiles were blown off the road and down steep embankments. One competitor suffered a broken pelvis when he lost control and veered into a bridge abutment. Frostbite claimed dozens more. By the end of the first day the field had been reduced...