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A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.

Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

The problem, says UC Davis physiologist and nutritionist Linda Bacon, is that very few people can lose weight and keep it off.

“I guess it was their first incident where they lose a plane,” said Dobersberger, the travel agent.

If anything, it would lose money gently, elegantly, hopefully not very much at one time.

There was not a moment to lose, for one well-directed shot might exterminate half of us.

That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.

Speaking with a certain dignity and using the language of the court, he said that they had not a moment to lose.

Fearing to lose his way, he bawls over the banister, and through the corridors, “Is any one there?”

When Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.