Amid these diverting illustrations and examples, the reader can lose track of the book's argument.
Did Mom forget a part of the meal, or lose track of cooking?
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John Griswold of Commonfund thinks that some investment committees, stuffed with alumni, may be starting to lose track of the risks their endowments are taking.
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But sometimes in Washington, everybody is spending all their time arguing about politics and you lose track of the folks who sent you there in the first place.
When you live by yourself in a house that you very rarely leave and is even more rarely visited, it's essential that you don't lose track of the time.
After taking so long to make up their minds the authorities lose track of many that they reject: refugee organisations estimate that less than a third of asylum seekers whose applications have been denied either leave voluntarily or are deported.
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The trick is to not get so involved in the fight that you lose track of your health when there are 15 healing potions in your inventory.
And they are likely to continue through the holiday season, when consumers tend to make more credit- and debit-card purchases and sometimes lose track of their spending, says Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy at the trade group.
It was fairly common for DSP to lose track of this information by the time it was needed.
The monitors do not stray onto the private roads and tracks used by the hunt, and so inevitably lose track of them for a while.
It is a small thing, the kind of change many vacationers notice in themselves as they unwind and lose track of time.
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Such subcontracting, and the increasing role of middlemen, have made it easier for retailers to lose track of which factories are producing their goods and, many critics say, to avoid taking responsibility for poor factory conditions.
The initial concern for both McLaren drivers will be not to lose ground at the start as they are starting on the dirtier, more slippery side of the track.
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