Word: lost
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...fortune, what with bolstering the dugout bench and increased drag on the team bus, and he's not exactly defraying the expenses with World Series checks. And look what he's done to the country: House Speaker Tip O'Neill said he was "hahtbroken, just hahtbroken" when the Sox lost against the Yankees last year. No one knows how long O'Neill's funk might last. Don Zimmer may have cost Jimmy Carter the presidency...
This deeply penetrating event, in its concise eloquence, expresses a great lesson in a few words: it touches upon substantial problems and basic questions that have in no way lost their relevance. Everywhere young people are asking important questions--questions on the meaning of life, on the right way to live, on the true scale of values: "What must I do...?" "What must I do to share in everlasting life?" This questioning bears witness to your thoughts, your consciences, your hearts and wills. This questioning tells the world that you, young people, carry within yourselves a special openness with regard...
That wry description of the policy of the Federal Reserve Board's new chairman is already making the rounds in Washington. Though he has headed the U.S.'s central bank for a little more than seven weeks, tall, taciturn Paul A. Volcker has lost no time in establishing himself as a staunch inflation fighter, dollar defender and hard-liner on interest rates. Since he took charge on Aug. 6, the key rates used to manipulate credit policy have shot up dramatically. The Fed last week raised the discount rate, which is the interest it charges on money that...
Hardest hit by the millers' walkout are the farmers in North Dakota, who ship more than 50% of their grain through Duluth. But farmers in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa are also affected. Lost sales are costing North Dakota farmers between $1 million and $4 million a day, and if the port is not opened before the end of the harvest, more than 200,000 bushels of grain will have to be stored on the ground. In the open, as much as 25% of the crop could be lost through damage during the winter. "It's just terrible...
...carrots. In 1974 the Kremlin made clear that it would rather live without most-favored-nation status than submit to "Scoop" Jackson's condition of increased emigration of Jews. Soviet sensitivities are a matter not only of international pride but also of intramural Kremlin politics. Nikita Khrushchev lost his job partly because the Kennedy Administration forced him to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba...