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Word: lostness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, a leading foe of forced busing who lost her school board seat in the last election, appeared to have regained her slot, piling up more than 50,000 votes...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: Mayor White Wins 4th Term, Trounces Timilty Across City | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...practical reasons, Chrysler should be rescued. Its bankruptcy would throw hundreds of thousands out of work, and would cost the public many millions of dollars in unemployment compensation and welfare payments and lost tax revenues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Free Lunch | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...Development District, the Symphony, and a director of the Tulane University Medical Center. To some, he will always be an outsider "You can walk through New Orleans today and hear rumors that I am going broke " Small chance of that. Still, he says, "I honestly believe that if I lost everything I would be successful again in a reasonably short period of time." Canizaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Outsider Makes it Big | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Cambridge politics is more than a battle between left and right, however. Even if the split between conservatives and liberals on the council remains the same, faces may change. David Sullivan, who lost by eight votes two years ago, will likely grab one of the nine seats--perhaps at the expense of a brother CCA councilor. Sullivan's large organization, student support, and $10,000 campaign budget have added name recognition to the widespread support earned by ten years of tenant activism, including the drafting of the council's condo control bill. Should Sullivan win, CCA veteran David A. Wylie...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council--Handicapping the Horses | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...strong minority vote from the city's Irish sections--South Boston, Dorchester, West Roxbury and Hyde Park. Timilty traditionally wins in the high-turnout Irish areas. He has never won by much; and the vote seems to be more anti-White than pro-Timilty. But the state senator lost nearly half his 1975 support there to School Committee President David Finnegan. Timilty needs these votes back in his column to have a chance tomorrow. Timilty must also pick up some black and liberal votes to counter White's rising popularity with the Irish. Yet he has done little...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones iv and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: The Road Ahead | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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