Word: loses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin's leaders also probably concluded that they had little to lose by a blow to their relations with Washington. They have been saying for some time that detente has brought them few benefits. They have never obtained, for example, the kind of economic rewards that they had expected from detente. One reason for this has been that Congress has made trade liberalization and credits conditional on Moscow's promising to relax its emigration restrictions. The Kremlin has balked at making such a pledge, complaining indignantly that such conditions constituted unacceptable interference in its internal affairs. The Soviets took...
...pressing the Census Bureau to make sure that all big-city residents are counted. Republicans are urging the bureau to see that people are not overlooked down on the farm. If the Census Bureau's predictions check out, New York will decline in population by only 2.7%, but lose four of its 39 House seats. Meanwhile, California, Texas and Florida will each gain...
This system causes the workers to lose interest in their job. The academics say that they develop an instrumental attitude toward the work. Which means that they work for the paycheck and nothing else...
Americans found it harder to live with the more profoundly threatening possibility that they might lose a way of life. From the Arab oil boycott of 1973 onward, the decade was bathed in a cold Spenglerian apprehension that the lights were about to go out, that history's astonishing material indulgence of the U.S. was about to end. Possibilities seemed to contract. Americans tutored in the gospels of progress began for the first time to peer at the future as a possible enemy. A few of them started waving pistols in the gas lines...
...record and a 3-3-1 mark in ECAC Division I play, the Crimson then caught a jet for the coast, there to absorb a few rays on the beach, survey the flora and fauna of the San Diego Zoo, barter in the squalor-surrounded markets of Tijuana...and lose three hockey games, very convincingly...