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Actually, you can bet that such a loss will work in reverse. Keep the lions hungry, and their fury will continue to mount...
...debtor's prison and rendered even less capable of paying off whatever debts he had incurred, the study card slacker, most likely in a bind because he was unable to get a necessary signature, finds the number of signatures he needs to get hopelessly multiplied. Fines and signatures mount until the hapless victim must deliver up to the Registrar the riches of Croesus and an autograph book worthy of...well, someone with a really big autograph book...
...hill in Hades only to have it roll down again on nearing the top, the Crimson (7-12,3-4) rallied from a 15-point first-half deficit to go ahead of the Big Red (6-13,1-6) in the second half, only to have Cornell mount a 20-3 run in the game's final minutes to come away with a blow...
Then, in the late 1980s, the cold war eased and the money ran low -- in part because the economy sagged as budget and trade deficits soared. American scientific breakthroughs were still leading to dazzling new products -- but too many of them were being manufactured in Japan. Pressure began to mount in Congress to cut defense funding and reshape America's amorphous research effort into a coherent program that would aid industry. But Presidents Reagan and Bush resisted the pressure because the strategy smacked of government meddling in the marketplace...
...those who were residents of Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across...