Word: lost
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...Black Caucus in Congress is well organized and active, but it lost its most prestigious member in last month's election, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the Senate's only black. No black will hold a committee chairmanship or leadership position for either party in the 96th Congress. The Black Caucus claims credit for the passage this year of the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, but the diluted act simply outlined goals for full employment rather than authorizing the means to achieve it. The Caucus was effective in creating the "minority set-aside program," which earmarks 10% of federal construction funds...
...diversity, black leaders still encounter difficulties in exercising power. They need to form alliances with white politicians, and they find such alliances unreliable in a time of growing conservatism. California's Jerry Brown angered blacks by his tepid support for his running mate, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, who lost to a conservative Republican, and for former Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who lost her campaign for attorney general. Even Ted Kennedy, who remains the most popular white politician among black voters, raised hackles in black communities by campaigning for Ed Brooke's Democratic opponent. Says Massachusetts State Senator Bill...
Coach John Harvey, pleased with his team's performance, said the victory "shows a mark of character. We lost the lead from the first half, but still fought off their comeback...
With John Havens sidelined with tendonitis in his elbow, John Stubbs moved up a notch to face Trinity's Page Lansdale. Stubbs suffered a brief lapse when he lost the second set but his 3-1 victory proved relatively painless...
George Bell continued to play predatory squash in humbling Scott Friedman 15-6, 15-8, 15-9. This year Bell has not only not lost a set, but he has also held his opponent to under ten points in every single game...