Word: loses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...most patent reason: with the Democrats already touting the state of the economy as their likeliest issue for 1972, Nixon aimed to defuse that by putting a well-known, if scarcely liberal Democrat into his Administration's economic front office. But Connally personally may have nothing to lose. Says a close friend: "John knows the economy can't get much worse. He has nowhere to go but up. If the situation improves, he can get the lion's share of the credit. It is a situation that appeals both to his political instincts and to his rather...
...jumbo jets. A sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, airline traffic goes into a dive whenever business in general weakens. This year companies reduced business travel, presidents moved back to the tourist-class cabin, and families postponed faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses in 1971 and 1972, although it has made stringent economies. The number of flights has been reduced, and United even saved...
...which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar: "I don't seem able to get rid of my spectres unless I can lose them in crowds...
...Crimson expects to establish itself in the nation's basketball circles, it could take a big step in that direction by upsetting Michigan. But it will have to use its vast talent completely and efficiently. something it hasn't done yet this season. The Wolverines won't lose on mistakes...
Ackerman's observation that many of the people for whom the law was passed don't even know about it is a telling one. Most of the people who are vocal in their views about rent control are the ones who have the least to lose. Much of the increase in Cambridge rents over the past ten years is due to the increased housing demand from students and adults just over student age. Many of these people, who come to live in Cambridge for short periods, can afford to pay higher rents, and so the landlord demands more, displacing long...