Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans stupidly land here, and then they naively make up the same lies to explain their presence," according to General José Maria Villarreal Abarca, commander in the northern provinces. "They say they got lost." Shortly after he spoke, one of his deputies came in and reported that three Americans had been caught making an emergency landing. The general went to investigate...
...striking good looks had always added to his James Bond panache, but last year he began to hear the winged chariot of middle age. He became depressed and nervous. His dark, curly hair started falling out, and he lost weight. He wanted to see a psychiatrist, but feared it would hurt his career. He was obsessed with producing a dramatic dope bust that involved trapping cocaine traffickers from South America and France in one place. To make his case, he relied heavily on a longtime DEA informant, a French Canadian who calls himself Claude Picault...
...past several years, however, Wall Street firms have begun to do takeover work. Davis Polk & Wardwell, for example, defended Carrier Corp. but lost out to Lipton, who represented the raider, United Technologies. Flom was not involved because he was on retainer both to United and Carrier. Indeed, Lipton and Flom are so prominent that a partner in an old-line Wall Street investment banking house says admiringly: "No one else can even shine the shoes...
Since 1971, A&P has cut the number of its stores from 4,400 to 1,800. Despite this reduction and a self-critical ad campaign that promised "to put price and pride together again," the company has either lost money or barely made a profit in every subsequent year. One reason is that A&P elected to close stores one by one in 36 states, with the result that it did not get the distribution savings of quitting an entire region. The cutbacks also left a lot of spare capacity at A & P's private-label, Ann Page...
...most obvious comment is that the major teams have taken a John Belushi-like bellyflop the last four years. The football team, once the Ivy title-winner, lost to Cornell and Columbia--in the same season. The soccer team, once an NCAA regional contender, now can't beat (ulp) MIT. And the hockey team, once a perennial ECAC playoff qualifier, has become a not-so-very-funny joke...