Several years ago I was complaining to a financial advisor that we had lost so much money in the past several months.

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"In Birmingham we've lost so much of our musical history, " he said.

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We have lost the Mayfair and we have lost Riverside and way back in time we lost the club A'Gogo so how much history do you want to get rid of?

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"It was a real challenge to finish once we had lost the foil, our speed dropped so much so we knew we had to do something drastic to fix it, " said Moshin Al Busaidi, the 37-year-old Omani sailor who shot to fame in 2009 when he became the first Arab to sail non-stop around the world in just 76 days.

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The symbols and meaning have been lost to commercialism much like the way we lost the use off fresh ingredients in mixology for so long.

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With those words, I realized that in recent years we've focused so much on making our lives easier than they used to be that we've lost sight of an essential truth of our marriage: We're a good team.

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Three months since we lost 20 innocent children and six dedicated adults who had so much left to give.

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The fact we have lost one manifestation of it doesn't matter so much.

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So why do we continue to romanticize the story of an investor who lost as much money as he ever made?

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Despite coastal populations at risk being so much less in the past, we know at least 3503 lives were lost in the Caribbean Basin since 1842 (165 years).

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