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Word: lost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kingsberg's practice and dedication paid off. Just as she had lost her position sophomore year when new players arrived, she gained a varsity slot her junior year when several key defensemen departed...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Changing With the Seasons | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...inability to present creative policies have invited challenge. Party discipline is wanting in Congress and party loyalty is wanting among voters. In the last presidential election, close to half of all voting-age Americans shunned the polls. The Citizens Party may be able to engage those who have lost faith in the political process...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach, | Title: Commoner Cause | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...rest of the independents, it was a disastrous outing. Incumbent Lawrence A. Frisoli lost badly, finishing 13th in the original count. Frisoli tried to build an electoral base on non-existent soil--disenchanted condo owners. They either don't exist or didn't turn out to vote. Leaders of the Concerned Cambridge Citizens (CCC), a group that published no stands on issues but whose candidates were mostly opposed to rent control, found the same hard fact--the traditional city voting blocs, be they liberal or ethnic, are very hard to penetrate. The only candidates useful as barometers...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Counting Change in Cambridge | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...argued equally adamantly against moving toward any à la carte pay guide. At another point in the meeting, Kirkland and R. Robert Russell, director of the Administration's Council on Wage and Price Stability, heatedly squabbled over whether unions should try to make up in wages the income lost due to higher energy prices. The committee's chairman, Harvard Economist John Dunlop, must have thought that he was back at a business school faculty meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Wages of Inflation | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...gainers have been hub cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and New York and recreation meccas like Hawaii and Florida. But there have been losers too. Some 60 cities have been stripped of all scheduled airline service. In Chattanooga, which lost much of its service when United and Eastern pulled out this year, James Hunt, a Chamber of Commerce executive, says unhappily of deregulation: "Count us as one of the minuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Dividends from Deregulation | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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