Word: lost
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...year, followed by tepid growth of 2.4% to 2.7% in 2010. If Canada hopes to get back on the road to recovery, not only will it have to erase its burgeoning trade deficit, but just as important, the country's volume of trade will have to make up for lost ground in 2009. Right now, achieving either looks to be a long...
...these early tube meals were unappetizing, and astronauts dropped too many pounds. "We know that astronauts have lost weight in every American and Russian manned flight," wrote NASA scientists Malcolm Smith and Charles Berry in a 1969 Nutrition Today article. "We don't know why." Feeding people in space was not as easy as it looked. (Watch TIME's video "Why America Hasn't Gone Back to the Moon...
...common currency and the general precariousness of many jobs has long forced a kind of prolonged adolescence, with adult children living in their parents' homes well beyond graduation. But the recession is scaling back even the limited opportunities casual positions offer. Not only are there fewer jobs available - Spain lost 620,000 positions in 2008; 124,000 joined the ranks of the unemployed in March alone - but those that remain are earning even less. "People here wish they were mileuristas," says Iolanda Velasco, a Vigo city councilwoman. "They're 800-euroists." Velasco, who oversees the city's youth programs notes...
...times during his NFL career, McNair was in so much pain that he couldn't practice. But come Sunday, he'd still suit up and gut out a win. He was a great athlete lost too soon and under unimaginable circumstances...
...rare occasion when he ventured an opinion. After reporting in Vietnam in 1968, Cronkite commented on the air that "it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." President Lyndon B. Johnson remarked that if he had lost Walter Cronkite, he had lost Middle America; soon after he announced that he would not seek re-election...