Very few people actually understand how our system of government works, how it developed and the lives lost in the process.

Last week, the Clinton Administration said the system was losing money more quickly than expected.

The system has been losing $1.6 million a year, he said.

By this time, the system had lost its weather fronts.

The system lost $385 million in the final 1986 quarter.

When a student leaves public school, the system loses some or all of that amount, state education officials said.

The confinement time measures the rate at which a system loses energy to its environment.

In other words, a chemical reaction could only proceed if the system lost energy.

This year, for example, the system lost only 339 white students.

There are other ways in which an open system can gain or lose energy.