But the idea is the same: if you lose one copy, you still have another or others.
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Usually, prescription drugs lose one-third of their worth when their patents no longer protect them from generic imitations.
If the unions slump too much, Germany may lose one of the few competitive edges it still has.
Air show organiser Jeff Brownhut said they "may lose one of the attractions".
The opinion polls suggest that his government has fallen so far behind Labor that it would probably lose one now.
She aims to lose one or two pounds a month, which will add up over the course of the year.
The United States is estimated to lose one in six gallons of fresh water every day due to leaky pipes.
"Lose one fight (as a professional) and you are history, " said Lewis, who won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics.
On the other hand, most people who lose one job find another relatively quickly, at least while the economy is booming.
Calculations suggest that the hardest-hit African countries could lose one-fifth of their Gross Domestic Product by 2010 as a result of Aids.
However, if an incorrect referral is made by either side, they lose one of their opportunities to challenge the decision of the on-field umpire.
Yet new construction projects are being hamstrung by lawsuits and regulators, and now the industry stands to lose one of its 104 reactors.
This just comes from the amount of time it takes to lose one job and find another: all those HR tests and interviews and so on.
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My mum felt that if she stayed any longer in Iraq she was going to lose one of her sons so we fled to Damascus in Syria.
In the case of Fred Wilpon, there is a distinct possibility that he could lose one of the greatest loves of his life: the New York Mets.
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U.S. cities lose one-fifth of their water to leaks and suffer 1.2 trillion gallons of wastewater spills each year, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office.
But our opponents, they're going lose one with the Flipper.
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We will lose one of the few remaining vulnerabilities of the worst criminals and terrorists upon which law enforcement depends to successfully investigate and often prevent the worst crimes.
Unless current trends are reversed, the western hemisphere's ongoing struggle to establish strong, viable democracies could well lose one of its greatest current success stories, Colombia and possibly Peru.
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The work reported Wednesday is a first step toward one day growing customized new ears for children born with malformed ones, or people who lose one to accident or disease.
The concern among broadcasters is that in conjunction with the auctions some broadcasters would be moved to new parts of the spectrum and some viewers may lose one or more stations.
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Without a serious effort to solve this problem, the risk from climate change will be vastly increased and the planet will lose one of its most valuable, and most beautiful, assets.
But what this feels like to me is a show desperate to not lose one of its strongest characters (and actors) and one of its best conflicts all in one fell swoop.
Each employee will lose one day of work every other week, which will amount to a 10 percent reduction in available controller work hours to staff air traffic facilities on any given day.
Relativism does not entail tolerance or any other moral value, but, once we see that there is no single true morality, we lose one incentive for trying to impose our values on others.
But in a year where the Republicans already have to defend 22 of the 34 Senate seats at stake, they cannot afford to lose one they were all but guaranteed of keeping just a few days ago.
The Navy will lose one of its twelve aircraft carriers , while its shipbuilding program will be kept at a level that will reduce the service to fewer than 270 ships - a number clearly inadequate to meet the Nation's worldwide missions.
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