For much of the time since, due to deforestation and poaching, it has seemed the mountain gorilla was swiftly destined to be lost to the world again.
The biggest threat in the next four years for Team USA, which hasn't lost since 2006, may be the 2014 World Cup, where a wily Spanish team that lost to the U.S. in the last two Olympic gold-medal games will be playing in front of a home crowd.
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The company also said up to 1, 500 jobs could be lost at factories across the world.
Klebnikov was the first American reporter to be murdered in Russia, and with his silencing the world lost one of its foremost experts on the vast and murky crossroads of Russian organized crime, Kremlin politics, Chechen terrorists, billionaire oligarchs, and the spread of Russian mafia conglomerates around the world.
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Incredibly, the United States very nearly lost the opportunity, thanks to this genuine "peace dividend, " to be the world leader in tiltrotor technology.
Needing just a draw to be crowned world champions in the final game of the tournament, Brazil lost 2-1 to Uruguay and missed out on a first World Cup triumph -- an event referred to by playwright Nelson Rodrigues as "our Hiroshima".
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The Labour Party is calling for an immediate start to the judicial phone-hacking inquiry so evidence will not be lost as the News of the World closes.
Defending champion Kindelan, believed by many to be one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, had not lost to anyone since 1999.
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Brazil, who also lost the 2004 Olympic final to the United States in extra-time, will be led by last year's World Player of the Year Marta.
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Adding a sixth gold star to the famous yellow and green jersey will be difficult -- Brazil lost to Netherlands at the quarterfinal stage at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa -- but not impossible, Ronaldo says.
And, of course, the way the place shook when Ray Knight stomped on home plate with the winning run of the sixth game of the 1986 World Series, just moments after all seemed to be lost.
Alan Davies asked for many things to be changed which were turned down and he lost his post four years later, just before the next World Cup.
They've got a huge pack and are physical with it, the Boks can front up to any pack in the world and if we do not get a forward platform we will be lost.
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While the story of the world's old-growth forests would appear to be one of unremitting destruction, forests lost to logging and agriculture are actually growing back in some areas, such as the northeast region of the United States and parts of Europe.
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