1971:MAG "to their bench for treatment. The Premont team, with the opposition disabled by this exercise of frontier sportsmanship, completed a 55-yd. pass and kicked a field goal to win 15-14. To compound the offense, Premont school officials later sent Los Fresnos a bill for $1,200-for the damage that the angry losers caused when they tried to tear up the locker room. 251084 The Federal Trade Commission last week warned that some manufacturers of Christmas cards are cheating buyers by putting fictitiously high price tags on"
1978:NF ", lead and zinc and so on. To increase the price of tea or iron ore is, on the basis of evidence adduced earlier, more difficult than to do so for oil or metals. If the prices of all primary commodities are indexed, some developing countries are bound to be losers. In short, indexation as proposed will benefit the developed countries and some developingcountries, while some others will suffer a large net loss. This is very similar to the finding of the FAO study on the costs and benefits of removal of protectionism. The second objection is that indexation is"
1976:FIC ". Uncles rumbled and aunts chirped and burbled. And over it all rode Duncan's level voice, sensible and confident. Justinecould tell when he began to vein. He continued alone, the others fell behind. The worst of the battle was over. All that was left was for the losers to regain face. Justine felt suddenly stifled and bored. She went into herbathroom for her toothbrush, and took a pack of matches from her bureau drawer. She had not grown up with Duncan for nothing: heating the toothbrush handle very slowly, she pushed it little by little into"
1979:FIC "insides. He is in no hurry. He stays leaning back on his hands while Bailey stops his weaving and says, "" Now, ladies and gentlemen! See it here! See it all! Spectacular, revealing, first time in the Western Hemisphere! '' Beatifically he smiles. '' Losers first. '' Nola looks at Bruce, then at Muriel. Muriel looks atNola. Muriel sets her mouth and stares with dislike at Bruce and hugs herself tighter. "" Not me. Not in front of him. He backed out. He has to leave. "" Disgust makes Bruce"
1974:FIC "the first rule of life; he was sometimes impatient with Nicky for not seeming to recognize a rule so obvious and so easy to follow. "" Somebody has to lose, "" Nicky would say, and John would reply at once, '' Yes, but not you, not me! Losers are dead and they don't even know it. '' Nicky thought otherwise,but he loved John too much to say so. Because it was the first time he had been in love, he could n't be sure how far one was allowed to go in the matter of disagreements."
1976:MAG "applies to single individuals: 70% on nonsalary income exceeding $100,000 a year. Actually, the fund probably will still be free of taxes, past or present. Any benefits payments it makes are deductible, and they tend to be greater than the fund's investment income. Ironically, the real loserswill be either employers who contribute to the fund or rank-and-file union members. Employers, who pay $22 per week into the fund for each of more than 420,000 Teamsters in 22 states, could no longer deduct those payments as a business expense. They might choose to add the $22 to wages"
1979:FIC "the room. "" And so, Montcalm lost his life, Qubec lost her heart, and we went down the drain to the dastardly English. "" Hurrah for the English!! You should have seen the look on their faces... What are we talking about? Winners? Losers? If we had won, would we not be cheering for ourselves? Whofought the best battle? The English. We deserved to lose. We'll always lose, so long as we drown in waves of emotionalism. "" Do n't think, Pierre, just feel? "" Exactly"
1974:FIC "of his mediocrity. He linked arms with ours and smiled his classic loser's smile and said how great it was that we were all toilers together in such a wonderful institution. If how losers get hired by companies normally as discriminatingas we are has an element of mystery in it, how losers get fired is also curious and worth examination. In our shop, the word"" fired "" is nearly always too strong a term for the actual event, which in most cases consists of having reached the last, negligible step in a series -- of facingthat point of dissatisfaction at which both"
1970:FIC "aura of disquiet in the hazel eyes set in Harris's muscular face. Henry stood staring at him, not understanding the melancholy, then he leaned down and touched his shoulder. "" Hey, man, I don't dig this sadness. You and Joe sit here like a couple of losers. Jimbo, it's not every day a man makes his fortune; wegot a lot to celebrate about. Come on, it's past. It's time to relax and just think about how you do n't ever have to bust your hump again. "" They looked at him"
1972:FIC "You got ta get a head set. Put yer ears on straight. Zoot yerself down, boy. These Gypsies is committin' suicide. We got the power. We got the game. If the Keepers whimsy it all they do is scratch' em out. Simple. They're losers, man. The bookies don't even look past their left shoulder at aGypsy Mark. They wo n't last, man. Believe me. HOSS I do n't know. There's power there. Full blown. GALACTIC JACK They do n't know the ropes, man. Rules is"
1978:FIC "the lead-car into the street. "" Stop there, "" his wife said as they neared a newer Pemex station. "" That looks clean. "" By the time the car was alongside the pumps, Fausto had decided to drop out of the race. What's one race? The only losers will be the blind children and the orphans. And what they don't getnow, they'll get the next time I win. He endured the rest of the trip by singing. Alone to himself, or with the mariachis on the radio. Occasionally he joined them in a huasteca"
1971:FIC "The best bluffer won, or the high hand. "" "" Or the most money. The most money generally wins, I Jay. "" To Collingsworth Mr. McLaine's measured words seemed to have a hidden significance . '' The big bankroll has a way of adding to itself. '' '' Losers weepers, '' Jay answered. Whatever point Mr. McLainehad tried to make had failedof its purpose. Softly he added, "" Winners keepers. "" It could have been by common consent that they changed the subject. After a while, after the cigars had been smoked down to stubs,"
1977:MAG "# Irate Fans. Neither the Mets nor Seaver had had a good year in 1976. The team finished third in the National League's Eastern Division. Attendance slipped, and with interest picking up in the Yankees , New Yorkers began to regard the Mets less as lovable losers than as just losers, period. Seaver pitched well, but was hobbled by the Mets' impotentoffense: the.246 team batting average was the lowest in the major leagues. When training opened this year, Seaver openly criticized Grant's refusal to enter the free-agent draft in search of needed hitting talent. Grant"
1976:MAG "the Party's designee for the senatorial nomination. It is hard to understand why the designation was much sought after, since the Democratic candidate on the November ballot will be the winner of the September 14th primary, and the pattern has been that the June choices of the Party leaders are September losers. In 1974, for example, the Party designated Syracuse Mayor Lee Alexander forsenator and Howard Samuels for governor, both of whom were defeated that September by rivals who accused them of running on the ticket of the bosses. Of this ear's five senatorial contenders, only one, Abraham"
1972:FIC "first to run. The shame kid. The first on his heel. Shame on the shame kid. Never live it down. Never show his true face. Last in line. Never face a showdown. Never meet a face-off. Never make a clean break. Long line a' losers. (All the other characters from Act One come on dressed in purple cheerleaderoutfits. Each has a pom-pom in one hand and a big card with the word "" Victory "" printed on it. They do a silent routine, mouthing the word "" Victory "" over and over and shaking"
1972:MAG "have learned for sure that his spiritual advisers are so appallingly commonplace, that he honestly believes that he is serving God, no matter what he does. Iv- I WERE A VISITOR from another planet, by I the way, here is how I would explain Mr. Nixon's actual malice toward Losers: I would say that it was because his family was poor during the GreatDepression and it was a humiliation to them to be lumped with other poor people. ft was as though the Nixons had all been locked up in a dog pound by mistake. The President nuw demonstrates that he"
1977:NF "na choose us a President, "" she said to the hostessas she hurried by. Later during the convention, 4 A.M. the July night George McGovern was nominated to lose to Richard Nixon, I dropped in on Wolfie's Restaurant, an all-night Miami Beach homing station, full of winners and losers from small-stakes poker games, salesmenattending smallwares conventions, sleepy-eyed minor Mafiosi and their double-eyelashedgold-thread-miniskirted girls. An elderly man came in, looked around, sighed, dropped into the counter seat beside me. He leaned forward to fish a menu out of the invisible counter shelf below, carefully put on"
1977:NEWS "the new national security and arms control teams under Mr. Carter seem to be stressing the theme that the United States has a strong technological edge over the U.S.S.R. in the development of strategic weapons and that if the Soviets want to get into an accelerated arms race with the U.S. they will be the losers. '' Certainly you're not going to be able to negotiate a SALT Hstrategic arms limitation talks agreement in three days in Moscow, "" said Mr. Warlike. "" It's... a question of putting some basic ideas down on the table, seeing what sort of reaction you"
1970:MAG "than in most armies) the carriere ouverte aux talents, in which every, junkie-recruit carries a Trip Leader's or Administrator'? baton in his knapsack. Like the Army, Synanon can "" make a man out of '' mighty unpromising human material -- the junkies, winos, and other losers who are too immature to function outside an authoritarian and tightly structured environment. Therest of us are likely to find it, as did Miss Austin (she is no longer. a nun), an interesting and educational place to visit but hardly one to live in. We may also"
1972:MAG "says a hustler in Body and Soul, one of the most memorable of all films about boxing. In Fat City, one of the least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a bunch of losers dying in spirit by slow, murderous inches. It lacks any substantial portion ofcompassion, however, any shred of insight to lift it above the level of a slumming expedition. # There was a time when John Huston understood such people and such desperation. A comparison between his evocative rendering"
1978:FIC "in the last few months Gronevelt had shown his mettle in a less macabre way. With typical Vegas nimbleness of foot and quick-wittedness. All the casino owners in Vegas had started making a big pitch for foreign gamblers . The English were immediately written off, despite their history of being the biggest losers of the nineteenth century. The end of the British Empire had meant the endof their high rollers. The millions of Indians, Australians, South Sea Islandersand Canadians no longer poured money into the coffers of the gambling milords. England was now a poor country, whose very rich scrambled to"
1975:MAG "to give his Plan a hard look and to marvel at the really wonderful results this one small mystic, trained at the top of the world in India, has achieved among the hard-nosed achievers of the West. Lest you suspect that TM is merely some misty-eyed cant whispered behind gauze curtains amonglosers who have abandoned just about everything else, please be advised that it has beenthe subject of feature articles in The New York Times ("" Thousands Finding Meditation Eases Stress ""), the San Francisco Examiner ("" Meditation Irons Furrowed Brows in State Legislative Halls ""), The Wall Street"
1973:FIC "times when one should be investing in Japan and others when one should be concentrating on Western Europe. I do not believe in spreading risk across the board, since I feel it is illogical to put money into things just for the sake of diversification, when youknowfull well that they will belosers. I believe that you must search out those very positive situations, and untilyou find them, park the money at a good solid rate of interest. Goodopportunities do not fly in through the window and hit you on the head. They are developed through hard work. The implementationof an"
1972:MAG "on the rules of the game. so that losers accept defeat and winners do not attempt to abuse the advantage of victory. There must also be a high degree of agreement on the values and goals the society cherishes, so that political defeat does not seem to carry intolerable penalties for thelosers. A party system must reflect the political community it serves, and when thatcommunity loses it, sense of identity, the party system can not fabricate one for it. Whether we Americans still retain a vision of our- selves as one people, one continent-sized community, is the ultimate question"
1972:MAG "rather than pitiful. Pity is like rust to a cruel social machine. DO NOT SAY THAT America's Winners are I about to burn America's Losers in public squares? although, if they did, it would be nothing new. I say that the Winners are avid to neglect the Losers, which is cruelty too. And neglecting becomes easier, if only the victimsor people who seem to represent them will look like clowns. If clownish-looking people had n't conic to Miami Beach to raise hell with the convention, there still would have been plenty of clowns in the cartoons and"
1970:MAG "money tonight. "" Pride and economic discretion did a brief battle within me. "" Yes, I won. "" "" Hey, that's real nice now. "" Sally laughed, squirming out of the chair and beginning an excited march around the room. '' The trouble always comes from losers who feel that now the town owes them something free. They want to bitchthe price with me an' I do n't like bitchin'. The old men arc the worst. The ones with the cigars and funny little silk suits. Have n't seen it in ten years and then"
1977:NF "a missed bus. By the time No Le Hace righted himself, Riva Ridge was winner. Mrs. Tweedy was up and cheering, hugging elfin Laurin, a man who would be perfectly cast as a pixie uncle in a French-Canadian TV series. Winners sparkle on the tip of an iceberg, losers glubglub in the murky deathclimes below: Ron Turcotte, with Riva Ridge's win, began an incredible string of Triple Crown victories? winning five of a possible six races, all for Mrs. Tweedy and Lucien Laurin. Mrs. Tweedy, by winning the 1972 Derby, turned the fortunes of Meadow"
1972:MAG "instead. "" Both imaginary parties are bossed by Winners. When Republicans battle Democrats, this much is certain: Winners will win. "" The Democrats have been the larger party in the past? because their leaders have not been as openly contemptuous of Losers as the Republicans have been. '' Losers can join imaginary parties. Losers can vote. '' LUSERS HAVE THOUSANDS of religions, often of the bleeding heart variety, "" I would go on. "" The single religion of the Winners is a harsh interpretation of Darwinism, which argues that it is the will of the universe that only"
1973:MAG "very impressive package. "" "" Yes, yes, "" I protested, "" but none of your films has earned money. "" "" Oh yeah, well look here, even before I had my own company , when I was still producing for one of the majors, I made two losers in one year, big ones, and I still came out $450,000 ahead.There's more than one way to skin a cat, you know. "" The distributors, it must be said, do not sit on the Carlton terrace primarily to invest in films that may or may not"
1975:MAG "# 8-The Memory Book, Lorayne &; Lucas (10) # 9-The Guinness Book of World Records 1975, McWhirter &; McWhirter # 10-The Woman He Loved, Martin (7) 289757 Sure losers. That is what the Golden State Warriors appeared to be when they reported totraining camp last fall. In a preseason shakeup, the Warrior front office had traded Center Nate Thurmond to Chicago, sent Rebounder Clyde Lee to Atlanta, and lost Cazzie Russell to Los Angeles after the streak-shooting forward"
1979:NEWS "it, the President would be seen as the "" great peacemaker "" and the Republicans would be seen as the "" dogs of war. "" Another Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, also says that '' if SALT II becomes a partisan issue, the Republicans will be the losers. The President will be on the side of peace. We have to becareful that we are n't on the other side. "" And Republican Congressman Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan, talking to reporters over breakfast May 9, agreed that Republicans would have to be wary of being viewed as"
1978:FIC """ "" Pen! What colorful argot you've picked up. Look -- why do n't you just stay here by yourself and I'll go back with Mummy. "" I should have, of course, but then there would be no Monty Chatworth today, and we'd all be the losers. As it was, I said that Mummy could never agree to that,and Prissy said that she could n't desert Mummy, and we generally punched Mummy about until she was shapeless. I wound up accepting a compromise. If Uncle Henry could wangle me into his old college at Oxford"
1973:FIC "to kill) It took you twenty cops just to see my knees. FRANK (enraged) Not a year ago, it did n't. IRISI did n't know you were Veldini's brother. -- 54 -- ð FRANKHow' bout all the other guys before that, all the losers and punks that went through here before you got selective. You're a fool, Iris. Two small time liquor stores and a fake bank job and you think you finally got a hero. IRISNo, Frank, that's what you think. I do n't need any proof."
1970:FIC ", throughout the interview, that their son could not possibly be an addict. "" What do you want to do? "" I asked Alonzo once. We were both sitting on our asses, our backs propped up against a concrete playground wall. Alonzo was waiting out a fouron-fourgame, the losers would drop a man, and me -- I was49taking my ease. A hotThursday in July, asphalt spongy underfoot, only in uptown is basketball played in 9o -- weather. I'd sprung Alonzo from home and I was n't in any hurry to get to my next visit. """
1977:NEWS "find we are together on goals and even closer on paper "" on the administration's proposal to overhaul criminal sentencing laws. "" I have yet to see an important piece of legislation that was not the product of compromise, '' he told the lawmakers. '' Only the people will be the losers if we stalemate. '' Thompson has been widely criticized by Democrats who called hisinsistence that some crimes be labeled Class X felonies a "" public relations gimmick. "" He acknowledged some lawmakers opposed the bill because of the label, but said he still believes the name to be important as a"
1978:MAG "Turkey's invasion of Cyprus. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 8 to 4 to retain the embargo, but Administration supporters will raise the issue again on the Senate floor. # While savoring their hard-fought plane-sale victory , Administration officials tried to play down its significance to both the winners and the losers. In capitals around the world, the Senate vote raised a significant question:How far had the U.S. modified its Middle East policy? 292353 "" Look, "" said Ribicoff, """
1978:MAG "infallibility. After the disastrous Soviet harvest of 1975, Minister of Agriculture Dmitri S. Polyansky was fired and packed off to Japan as ambassador. (His predecessor, Vladimir V. Matskevich, was similarly reassigned as ambassador to Czechoslovakia after. the poor harvest of 1972; under the Brezhnev regime, political losers have at least a hope of ending up as ambassadors and not being annihilated,as they were under Stalin.) But Fyodor D. Kulakov, the Kremlin's party secretary for agriculture, was never even implicitly assailed, since this would have reflected on Mr. Brezhnev's policy of solving the agricultural"
1972:NF "ways of giving the arts sustenance. It must cultivate the habit of looking toward the world of art for direction. In the arts only will the mode for our conduct toward life be discovered.... 1 That is why we can starve the artist and chortle over it and still come out the losers. We've got to get over the irritation we feel at his peccadilloes andfind him to be what he is and reward him for it.) c It may be said that America has already done enough for the arts. "" We are doing our share "" is the usual way of"
1972:MAG "than the Christianity reinvented every day by Dr. I). Elton Trueblood, Professor at Large. rr HE INDIAN I TALKED TO MOST was Ron I Petite, a Chippewa. He said that he and the others had come from all over the country to Flamingo Park in Miami Beach, where Losers and friends of Losers had caused a tent city to be built. They movedright out again, disgusted and frightened by clowns. They went to the Hollywood Indian Reservation, a few miles north of Miami, where Indian notions of sacredness and dignity were respected. They would not be represented"
1972:MAG "every day by Dr. I). Elton Trueblood, Professor at Large. rr HE INDIAN I TALKED TO MOST was Ron I Petite, a Chippewa. He said that he and the others had come from all over the country to Flamingo Park in Miami Beach, where Losers and friends of Losers had caused a tent city to be built. They moved right out again,disgusted and frightened by clowns. They went to the Hollywood Indian Reservation, a few miles north of Miami, where Indian notions of sacredness and dignity were respected. They would not be represented there by some hairy"
1976:FIC "toiling gasps and the scrape and skid of their paws on the track. When they rounded the last bend there was a little cheer, scattered shouts of anger or glee which ended the moment the dogs crossed the finish line: relief, jostling, and some laughter -- and a flurry of losers scattering tickets at their feet. '' Let's go round to the paddock,"" said Lorna. "" I want to pick a winner. "" "" Everyone's looking at you, "" whispered Hood. "" They're saying, Who's that fantastic chick?' "" She laughed."
1978:FIC "he can do is play that flute. "" You're not even a good coward, "" Marcelino said. "" A good coward would have died years ago. You should n't have even been born. Like my Uncle Celso used to say, life is a game for winners, not losers. '' '' What's that supposed to mean? '' '' I don'tknow, but he used to say it. "" Fausto flung his pillow at the bedpost. Marcelino ducked, but as he rose from his crouch, an ice-bag crashed into his chest and he collapsed on the"
1970:MAG "313865 Not long ago, people went up to the attic to stow clutter away. Today they bring it down. Nostalgia and its bastard cousin, camp, have transformed debris into antiques, and trivia into gold. In the Hollywood attic, two losers have been moldering for over a year, waiting for a miracle that would renderthem profitable. The leftovers are Fearless Frank and Madigan's Millions, and the miracle is Midnight Cowboy, which reinforced the reputation of Dustin Hoffman and elevated Jon Voight from a cipher into a star with a six-figure"
1975:NF "morality, and in the classroom should subliminally indoctrinate the pupils in such principles, is hopelessly unrealistic and atavistic. The children of California are entitled to competent and dedicated teachers; when, as in this case, such a teacher is forced to abandon her lifetime profession, the children are the losers (Id. at 675). 3. Board of Education of El MonteSchool District v. Calderon, 35 Cal. App. 3d 492, 110 Cal. Rptr. 916 (1974). Just one year after the Pettit case, another case was brought to the California courts on the same"
1974:FIC "out every loser, classic or otherwise, so the presence of even a single specimen is a cause for wonder to the other employees and a greater cause for chagrin to management. Nevertheless, in my experience no organization has ever succeeded in reaching the statistical goal of what we may call zero losers. Why should this baffling situation arise and why does it remain an insoluble problem? The question is well worth asking in the light of the fact that the classic loser will stand out with such a vividness of unsuitability that one would expect him -- or, though far more rarely, her"
1974:NF "the National Cancer Institute is part, the FDA shuns such advice and relies instead on the self-serving scientific expertise of industry. As long as the FDA and industry are of such like mind, we do n't need a ouija board to predict that in crises over food additives we will be the losers. 114 Five Case Histories of Nonprotection: Proof Positive Many highly sophisticated and intelligentpeople truly believe that the government's decisions about food additives are made ration-ally on a pure scientific and legal basis in the best interests of the public health. In fact such decisions are largely political and economic,"
1972:MAG "gathered, though nobody said so out oud, was the butt of a rather elegant practical oke. He was a Winner who had been encouraged. y other Winners to identify himself with Losers, o bury himself up to his neck in the horseshit of' opulism, so to speak. Losers hate to vote for Losers. They know hat Losers are. So Nixon wouldwin. W HAT REMAINED to be discovered at the convention was, among other things, how inch pity Republicans as individuals felt for le Vietnamese. and for Americans who were adly housed and badly nourished and so"
1972:MAG "of unemployment. # For most of these last two decades, American liberals, of whom I am, I suppose, one, have been most concerned about the outsiders in our society? the black, the brown, the poor, the uneducated, the young? who are the all-but-inevitable losers in the influence game that we have substituted for responsible party government. But someof these groups have learned to beat the odds by ignoring the rules. If the "" big boys "" and the "" special interests "" control City Hall, or the legislature, or the Capitol, the """
1972:NEWS "because of hostility to /dm in the Jewish community over the Forest Hills housing project and school decentralirat ion. The strained relations with' the liberal wing of the party is also evident in the chill between the mayor and Senator'. The Mayor was not invited to join other Democratic presi'dential losers on the platform at the national convention in what a Lindsay aide said was an"" unconscionable "" slight. Mr. also apparently rejected Mr. Troy's public suggestion that the Mayor be Senator's chief urban! affairs adviser. n addition, the Mayor has - not been consulted in the setting"
1978:MAG "chance of selling this merger on its merits. "" # If approved, the deal would end the grandiose hopes of feisty little Texas International Airlines of taking over National. But the Texans, who have lately spent $48 million to buy 20% of National's stock, probably will not be sore losers. At the $41 price that Pan Am is offering for National stock, TexasInternational's investments will be worth $70 million. 289050 Should U.S. firms pull out-or stay and work for change"
1971:MAG "the world. "" Pleased with the idea, Bush sold it to President Nixon during a twenty-minute conversation in the Oval Office. When Nixon announced the appointment a few days later, it seemed that the U.N. ambassadorship had become another of those political consolation prizes that Nixon habitually awards to Republican losers. Ah well, '' good old George '' could do no harm at theU.N., and he had himself a prestigious if somewhat peripheral sinecure until the next election. Now, somewhat to his own surprise, Bush's consolation prize has become the most difficult challenge of his career. What"
1972:MAG "the Nixon versus McGovern thing:, everybody was sure that Nixon would win. Me; overn, I gathered, though nobody said so out oud, was the butt of a rather elegant practical oke. He was a Winner who had been encouraged. y other Winners to identify himself with Losers, o bury himself up to his neck in the horseshit of' opulism,so to speak. Losers hate to vote for Losers. They know hat Losers are. So Nixon would win. W HAT REMAINED to be discovered at the convention was, among other things, how inch pity"
1973:MAG "Normally when you purchase faulty merchandise you can get a refund. I bought what Mr. Agnew had to say. Now I want my money back. # JIM FALIN # Tacoma, Wash. # Sir / I 'll never go to the races with Nixon. All he does is pick the losers. # SUSAN BAUM # Washington, D.C. # Sir / Mr. Agnew has nowdone what he can do for his country. # Mr. Nixon is still asking what his country can do for him. # BRIAN DELAHANTY # Burlington, Vt. # Sir / I applaud Agnew for haying the"
1971:MAG "and, of course, in the struggles of politics, the overriding objective is to win. The myth of competition and the glory and ex-citement of victory are fundamental to the American way of life. No nation honors its winners more nor is more confused as to what to do with its losers. The compulsion to win projected onto the world stage is called '' the nationalinterest. "" "" We are the Number One Nation, "" President Lyndon B. Johnson exclaimed at a crucial moment in the Vietnam war, "" and we are going to stay the Number One Nation. "" The"
1970:NEWS "Mayorc.is again ready to save money at the expense of the health of deprived people. Commissioner Terenzio has struggled to get enough money to run city hospitals at a decent level. Now he indicates his failure, frustration and disappointment by submitting his resignation. The poor sick of this city are the losers. PAUL W. SPEAR, M.D. Director of Medicine Morrisania City Hospital Bronx, March5, 1970? Plan for Third Avenue Opposed To the Editor: According to The Times news story of Feb. 15 the chairman of the City Planning Commission is again considering rezoning lower Third Avenue, Eighth to Fourteenth"
1978:MAG "that $3 billion would go to out-of-state corporations and individuals who own land in California. After corporations in California take their share. the bottom line in this "" middle-class tax revolt "" is less than $1 billion in the pockets of homeowners. F CORPORATIONS and property owners are the winners. the losers are the disadvantaged and the poor. Senior citizens will lose their centers and thepublic transportation on which they depend: fewer young Chicanos and blacks will be educated at community colleges; women who seek jobs will face a market glutted with the sudden addition of numerous unemployed. All this to save"
1973:FIC "All those words and everything. "" Actually, part of Brian's brain was attracted by the imperialvision: Roman legions marching out through the gate of Janus. American soldiers with the Sun on their helmets, manning their checkpoints -- just as a picture, he liked it better than the scruffy losers, the pale-faced clergy of the Left. You'd be inhuman not to."" I guess there's some of the fascist pig in all of us, "" he said. "" Yeah? You find that? "" "" A little bit, sure. Be honest about it, Kline"
1973:FIC "fact, there's some doubt in my mind that even this will be permitted us. As heart wins the battle of history and bail commissionsthroughout the length and breadth of the land each day secure releases for good risks,' we're going to be left with only the two- and three-time losers. You'd do better to take a flier in a Bronx uranium mine.We're dead ducks, fellows, law's dirty old men. "" "" We know all that, "" Barney Fetterman said. "" We know all that. What do we do? "" Ted Caccerone stood"
1972:MAG ": "" These are ferocious creatures who imagine that they are gentle. They have experimented in very recent times with slavery and genocide. "" I would call the robbing and killing of American Indians genocide. I would say, '' The two real political parties in America are the Winners and theLosers. The people do not acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead. "" Both imaginary parties are bossed by Winners. When Republicans battle Democrats, this much is certain: Winners will win. "" The Democrats have been the larger party"
1979:MAG "the Soviets, it is our word against theirs. Is n't such a situation more dangerous and liable to bring on a crisis than if we had secured more reliable forms of verification by being more stubborn and shrewd in our negotiations? Without the possibility of 100% verification, we are the big losers in the deal. # Robert P. Sternick Fullerton, Calif. # If Carterwants to go down in history as the savior of the world-and the time was never riper-let him make the boldest move of all: experiments in unilateral disarmament. We ca n't go on forever piling up genocidal weapons"
1972:MAG "Buck ley himself did not know the secret message o his smile. I would then guess at the message "" Yes, oh yes, my dear man I understand wha you have said so clumsily. But you must know your heart what every Winner knows: that on must behave heartlessly toward Losers, if on hopes to survive. '' That may not really be the messagein th Buckley smile. But I guarantee you that it wa the monolithic belief that underlay the Repuk Bean National Convention in Miami Beach Florida, in 1972. All the rest was hokum. L ISTEN: I"
1974:FIC "on at last -- the classic loser always moves on at last, in effect choosing to sacrifice the tribe he has adopted before the tribe has found any adequate means of sacrificing him -- but the infection he leaves behind will in nearly every instance require many years to purge. |p149Of the handful of losers I have encountered in the course of my long career with this organization, mosthave moved in and out of our highly efficient little whirlpool with a merciful speed, vanishing after a while as if they had been so much mere soiled and ineffectual foam. But they were not foam, or"
1972:MAG "the butt of a rather elegant practical oke. He was a Winner who had been encouraged. y other Winners to identify himself with Losers, o bury himself up to his neck in the horseshit of' opulism , so to speak. Losers hate to vote for Losers. They know hat Losers are. So Nixon would win. W HAT REMAINED to be discovered at theconvention was, among other things, how inch pity Republicans as individuals felt for le Vietnamese. and for Americans who were adly housed and badly nourished and so on. The scientific conclusion is that there was a"
1972:MAG "expressing choice, and choice implies division, which will be ever present in a large and diverse nation like ours. But for the two-party system to work, there must be not only division but large areas of agreement. There must be agreement on the rules of the game. so that losers accept defeat and winners do not attempt to abuse the advantage of victory. Theremust also be a high degree of agreement on the values and goals the society cherishes, so that political defeat does not seem to carry intolerable penalties for the losers. A party system must reflect the political community"
1973:FIC "into each other and shouting "" ouch "" and "" ah ha! "" and he was happy to wake up to a clear blue day and find his mind bright as silver. He decided he might as well give the Turn Left Society another whirl, just for something to do. The losers with the gravy stains might look better after his afternoon with the winners, thewindblown lords of creation. Woody Kline raised an eyebrow when he saw Brian come in, and so help me turned his back. Geez, you know, the guy hates me. He's had time to"
1971:MAG "If someone is going to put a wet diaper in your hand, pick Sandy Dennis to do it. The girl makes it seem like some sort of unpublicized honor. A delectable scatterbrain, she appears to be permanently stalled somewhere between bed and breakfast. Sandy is one of life's winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voicebox quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called How the Other Half Loves"
1971:MAG "village, then last week's Academy Awards made a certain amount of sense. Hollywood's annual orgy of self-adulation was really the commencement exercises at good old Global Village High, complete with prizes, dull speeches, strained humor, amateurish entertainment-and one hell of a party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as italways is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none of the prizes, and one of the biggest awards of all went to the truculent dropout of the class. # The lovely"
1971:MAG "... "" Would that the cure for semantic aphasia were that simple. 277584 Just as President Nixon hoped, the Burger court is swinging to the '' center. '' The biggest losers are those who often seemed to be the Warren era's biggest winners: criminaldefendants. # Last week the Burger court sharpened that trend with a 5-to-4 decision limiting Miranda v. Arizona, the famous 1966 ruling that requires police to warn all suspects in custody of their rights to silence and counsel"
1972:MAG "as to what can be done and what must not he done with the real estate of the meek. The Nixon-Kissinger scheme, the Winners' scheme, the neo-Metternichian scheme for lasting world peace is simple. Its basic axiom is to he followed by individuals as well as great nations, by Losers and Winners alike. We have demonstrated the workability of the axiom in Vietnam,in Bangladesh, in Biafra, in Palestinian refugee camps, in our own ghettos, in our migrant labor camps, on our Indian reservations, in our institutions for the defective and the deformed and the aged."
1979:MAG "the Hiirtgen Forest. The artistic tradition here is that of Thirties documentary, the tradition of Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938) or Evans and James Agee's Let Us Novs Praise Famous Men (1941) . To cite Sontag again, documentary aspires to rack the conscience by ferreting out losers like Okies, sharecroppers, and residents of the Tennessee Valley, '' the poorand the dispossessed, the nation's forgotten citizens. "" Or, in the terms James Jones invokes to interpret Sad Sack, "" the army's and the war's' pore dumb fuck' of an eternal"
1973:NEWS "Spewrell Bluff Dam project. He talked to 50 delegations representing both sides. He flew over the area two times by helicopter and canoed down the river twice, he says. Land speculators and construction people would be the prime beneficiaries of the dam, the Governor asserts. Taxpayers would be the losers. '' There is a natural inclination on the part of the Corps of Engineersto - keep -- their own -- functions? at? thepresent capacity, "" the Governor says. "" I think there has to be generated a more inquisitive attitude on the part of the Congress through the General Accounting"
1972:MAG "or her face was painted or masked. I ley presto! A clown! The idea, of course, was to make the victim comical rather than pitiful. Pity is like rust to a cruel social machine . DO NOT SAY THAT America's Winners are I about to burn America's Losers in public squares? although, if they did, it would be nothing new. I say that the Winners are avid to neglect the Losers, which is cruelty too. And neglecting becomes easier, if only the victims or people who seem to represent them will look like clowns. If"
1976:MAG "everything I have to prove, "" he said. He knew what coming to the Nets would mean. It would mean, first of all, that he was coming home, back to Long Island, where the Nets played their games. It meant more than that. '' They were losers, '' Erving said. '' From the minute I knew I was coming... I was preparing myself to stop that. "" He did his job. In the 1973-74 season, number 32 led the Nets to the A.B.A. championship and was named the league's Most Valuable Player."
1975:MAG "pot. And lees say it takes about a minute and a half to two minutes to play a hand. Right That's reasonable. Now, you can scientifically prove through mathematics that in one hour and forty minutes the house is going to have eight thousand dollars and the winners and the losers inc going to have nothing apiece. Add this new gimmick betting to it,like exactas and trifectas, where the takeout is up to twenty-five per cent, arid you'll i-nbabli wind up in the hole. Listen, have a good day. "" Had steak-and-eggs in the Man o'"
1977:MAG "idea suddenly thinkable. # Irate Fans. Neither the Mets nor Seaver had had a good year in 1976. The team finished third in the National League's Eastern Division. Attendance slipped, and with interest picking up in the Yankees, New Yorkers began to regard the Mets less as lovable losers than as just losers, period. Seaver pitched well, but was hobbled bythe Mets' impotent offense: the.246 team batting average was the lowest in the major leagues. When training opened this year, Seaver openly criticized Grant's refusal to enter the free-agent draft in search of needed"
1973:FIC "willpower. She was some kind of Jewish refugee, he bet, beaten way down. This was one of those turning points (he had n't expected one today) where you decided to become a cripple or not. He must toughen his mind starting now, and have no truck with losers. Final snapshots of Mrs. Schmidt: walking the streets in her belted raincoat,boiling a rationed egg in her lonely apartment, finally being gunned down in an empty swimmingpool by the S.S. Brian told his parents that he liked her very much, and always would, but he could n't afford"
1974:FIC "government with all of your comrades. But it is very hard to be yourself, all alone under the bed in your mother's house. I am crying for the bravery of Kristofor. The war is over . Whoever won, won without Kristofor. May God forgive the winners and the losers alike, they each have their dead. May God protect Kristofor Under the Bed, wherever he may be or wherever he may go. "" As a matter of fact, several weeks before the signing of the Armistice, he went to Sacramento and under the name of Charles Abbott took a"
1976:MAG "have a bottom, is the notion that business is a game, and that the point of playing a game is to win it. Since this is a prevalent American point of view, it is scarcely surprising that Krell should share it. Few, in any case, question who the losers are. 431916 | THE MEMORY MACHINE # # We' re now about to engage in a bit of name-dropping. The name we're going to drop is that of the late John"
1974:MAG "That does n't sound so bad. Kick off. 106385 Let's Get Involved, "" read the message in masking tape on a window at the training camp of the Buffalo Bills. Losers since 1967, the Bills got involved last year, winning nine games, rushingfor an NFL-record 3,088 yards and leading the league in attendance. // Coach Lou Saban used the draft, half a dozen free agents and deals involving 45 players to find support for O.J. Simpson, most notably a"
1979:MAG "friends. "" In these modern days, particularly with the kind of crap they put out in the universities, life is supposed to be a Continued on following page // bowl of cherries -- nothing but fun. But that isn't life. '' For every winner, there are hundreds of losers. For everyone who is first, there are thousands who aren't. Whatis important, in terms of the human spirit and character, is for an individual to learn from losing and never accept defeat. "" I am going to speak out on issues, and maybe I'll lose"
1971:NF "endogenous sources of such deviance. Endogenous sources refer to the stresses and strains that arise from the operation of normal social processes. Perhaps those very people who suffer from the operation of "" the system ""? those who are widowed by warfare conducted on behalf of the society, those who are losers in a system of survival of the fittest? will tend to become alienated fromthe system that has inflicted their mis fortune.32 Societies try to deal with such alienation by finding ways, Society 89 in the words of one sociologist, to "" cool out "" such persons, to help them adapt"
1972:MAG "so out oud, was the butt of a rather elegant practical oke. He was a Winner who had been encouraged. y other Winners to identify himself with Losers, o bury himself up to his neck in the horseshit of' opulism, so to speak. Losers hate to vote for Losers. They know hat Losers are. So Nixon would win. W HAT REMAINEDto be discovered at the convention was, among other things, how inch pity Republicans as individuals felt for le Vietnamese. and for Americans who were adly housed and badly nourished and so on. The scientific conclusion"
1976:MAG "the games. We knew it was wrong, but we could n't adjust. Usually, at the end of the season you're stronger physically and tired mentally. And they, St. Louis, played fantastic basketball . They were hungry and we weren't. '' Winners make more money than losers and Erving is, as others have pointed out, a careful man with money. "" I'm a conservative spender, sure. I do n't have any single self-indulgence. I do n't want a lot of things. I now have two condominiums and my mother's house and property on"
1973:FIC "MOTHER Bring me your college yearbook, dear, and let's circle the men you like best in each class. Then I'll call my detective agency to do a credit, character, and family history check on each. After we have our files complete, we can eliminate the obvious losers, then you can bring the others home, one by one, so Ican check out superficial genetic structure. p. 15 DAUGHTER You mean it will be like a game? MOTHER A wonderful game. That only we know the rules to. I ca n't impress on you enough,"
1975:MAG "the 7,500-mile road. The ice will parcel out some segments to other Western lines, and abandon the remainder of the Rock Island. # Worst Loss. As a result, several roads operating between Chicago, the Rockies and Texas clearly stand to gain from the bankruptcy. But there will be losers, too, including hundreds of grain shippers and manufacturers who have been served exclusivelyby the Rock Island. # The wreck of the Rock Island is just the latest sign of growing trouble on the U.S. rails and the failure of the Government to produce a rational rail policy for the nation."
1979:NEWS """ A board member asked why the financial community had not diagnosed the board's financial condition and warned someone. Several observers choked in amazement. They had assumed it was the board's duty to know its own condition. During a recess, Van Gorkom talked to reporters. '' The real losers are the kids and nobody's said much about them, '' he said.Then it was the accountants' turn. Their job is figures, not kids. "" Ninety four million... "" they intoned. "" One hundred thirty one million... 649 million.."
1972:MAG "Who made the world still governs it. I hate to think of this document's falling into the President's hands. I am persuaded that Mr. Nixon, in his splendid humorlessness, does not understand that he is implementing the harsh, long-term survival plans of the Winners as opposed to theLosers, of the fat people versus the thin. It seems entirely possible to me, now that I have learned for sure that his spiritual advisers are so appallingly commonplace, that he honestly believes that he is serving God, no matter what he does. Iv- I WERE A VISITOR from another"
1972:FIC "let me go too soft. BECKY LOU Why not. You've earned it. HOSS Earned it? I ai n't earned nothin'. Everything just happened. Just fell like cards. I never made a choice. BECKY LOU But you're here now. A hero. All those losers out there barkin' at the moon. HOSS But where am I goin'? The future's just like the past. BECKY LOU You got ta believe, Hoss. HOSS In what? BECKY LOU Power. That's all there is. The power of the machine. The killer"
1978:MAG "conclusion that crucial in most fortunes, great and small, is luck. The beneficiary, like a raffle winner, was at the right place at the right time, and in a rational system should not be permitted to convert his luck into real economic power, any more than the myriad losers should suffer more than limited liability for their losses. Indeed, risk and faithdo produce much more waste and inefficiency than any well-trained planner could tolerate or defend. Some 300,000 new businesses start every year in America, two-thirds fail within five years, and the median small businessman earns less than"
1971:MAG "out of saloons. On a Saturday in my fifteenth year, when I refused an order to dig a cesspool in our backyard because of larger plans downtown, I fought back: it was savage and ugly? though, as those things go, one hell of a good fight. Only losers emerged, however. After that we spoke in terse mumbles or angry shouts,not to communicate with civility for three years. The Old Man paraded to a series of punishing and uninspiring jobs? night watchman, dock loader for a creamery, construction worker, chicken-butcher in a steamy, stinking"
1971:MAG "mainland, a new rationale will develop for retaining American bases on Taiwan and deploying an armada in the far Pacific. Presumably it will be the threat of new Japanese militarism. "" In the Game of Nations, '' an Egyptian politician once pointed out, '' there are no winners, only losers. The objective of each player is not so much to win as to avoidloss. "" Problems do not get solved. They are managed. Success is achieved if disaster is averted or even postponed until the next administration. When his term of office came to an end in the ignominious"
1972:MAG "ones. Now maybe they'll have a chance to walk in peace, like I do. "" # For Wilt Chamberlain, vindication was sweet. The most dominating personality and physical presence in professional basketball for the past 13 years, he had been stamped as one of sport's alltime great losers. As his detractors took delight in pointing out, in critical play-off games Chamberlainseemed unable to produce the same heroics he performed so matter of factly during the regular season. Although he held numerous individual records and honors, he had helped only one team to a national title (Philadelphia,"
1973:FIC "he was the dreamer, the judge no more than dummy to his ventriloquist. But the other thing, the other thing. Curiosity was killing the cat. Oyp and Glyp were his only failures, but Oyp and Glyp in life were as they had been in his dream: punks, losers. Their collective bond -- this was somethingp106which surprised him whenever he remembered it,or contemplated one of those expensive safaris which would take him across the country or out of it when a rumor ripened and fell his way -- had been less than eleven hundred dollars. Not masterminds, not arch"
1973:FIC "Gondorff's gon na play his chump. We come in at the sting, make the pinch, and you walk out free as a bird. No questions, no court appearance, nothing. HOOKERNo. ð POLKYou've already done time twice, and judges don't like three time losers. You wan na sit in the can for forty years, startin' tonight? HOOKERI'll make parole. POLKLike hell. You wo n't even get a review till you're seventy. HOOKER (softly) I'll chance it. Polk pauses for a moment, then"
1972:MAG "keep on pushing up sales and earnings. Mahoney has fired or otherwise replaced 60% of N.S.I.'s top management, and put in his own hand-picked people. # He has also boosted profits by splitting N.S.I.'s main branches into separate companies, as he says, '' in order to identify the losersbetter. '' McCall's was divided into four profit centers-printing, magazine and bookpublishing, home-sewing patterns and data processing-and the manager of each was made responsible for its success. The profitable liquor distributorships were taken from Canada Dry and put under a new company, Somerset Importers, Ltd. Mahoney"
1977:NF "Jackson, or Humphrey people in that illusorily triumphant circle. Late that night, after McGovern had won, I met members of the Minnesota delegation out walking, and terribly down. Back at the Monte Carlo, victorious McGovern delegates were feeling sorry for the Humphrey people or scorning them as had losers. Some actuallybelieved that the Democratic Party would hold together in any fight against someoneso corrupt as Richard Nixon. The bar stayed open late into the night; happy and not-so-happy people splashed in the hotel pool; a few of us waded out to swim in the calm dark ocean. From"
1972:MAG "enough at one point to hope that nice properties might be had for a song on the Moon. They had sent some good Republicans up there to have a look around, to cancel some stamps, to pray and hit a few golf balls, and they knew better now. Not even Losers, with all their lazy resourcefulness, could survive on the Moon. So itwas time to think hardheaded thoughts about efficient use of the surface of the Earth again. And why not make friends again with our old friends, the Chinese? 66 IT WAS PERHAPS UNKIND OF ME to associate"
1972:NF "; it is too great a draft on their vitality. Children may sleep with the strong and mature, for there is a reciprocation of benefits. We radiate our lives, and partake of the radiations of others ; but if we give much, and get little, we must be the losers. Men have a natural and proper repugnance to sleeping with each other, andso have many women, but not so much. In natural philosophy, like electricities repel, unlike attract. Physiology, or the science of nature, teaches us the conditions of health for every organised being."
1970:MAG "could bring the total cost by some estimates to 88 an hour. That is the kind of settlement that G.E. probably could have got from the unions last fall-but that the unions surely could not have got from G.E.-without a strike. # The Nixon Administration and the national economy are among thelosers. Administration officials have vowed to avoid arm-twisting intervention in labor disputes, and theykept their pledge during the G.E. battle. The strike was the first important test of the Administration's hope that an intensifying profit squeeze would force corporate executives to resist union demands for ever higher wage increases-and that"
1970:MAG "Won, Who Lost? Readers might be interested to know what happened to the 216 peace and new priorities "" preferred "" candidates for the House and Senate listed in these pages October 24. In percentage terms, a majority of them won, just under 53 percent (114. winners and 102 losers). Ninety-nine of the 216 candidates were incumbents, 117 challengers. Overall,antiwar incumbents were reelected (with important exceptions including Senators Gore, Tydings and Goodell and Representa- tives Allard Lowenstein and Daniel Button). Among preferred incumbent House Democrats, there were 68 winners and two losers. Among"