1985:MAG "of course, does not work. Two Germans are killed, and the order comes down from the prison commander: one out of every ten prisoners is to be executed at sunrise. The men themselves must choose the victims. Lots are drawn, and Chavel finds himself one of the three losers. As the only '' man of position and property '' among them, thelawyer keenly feels injustice and fear. He offers money and then all of his possessions, including his ancestral home, to the one who will take his place before the firing squad. Against all expectations he finds" 1983:FIC "on the Patties, plotted possible attacks on Port Stanley; from the captain's visit to the rumor of plague, they had transformed the island into a fortress against anarchy; after Germanicus's return, they again transformed the island, this time from fortress to bloody shuffle. They thought likelosers, acted accordingly. Reason gave way to meanspiritedness and worse. There were viciousarguments, food-hoardings, suicides, a sharp increase in the death of the old and the very young. The corresponding increase in funerals moved Longfaeroe back to the fore of the community as psalm singer. There were" 1983:FIC "posted. When they were putting the names on the board Beth asked the man next to her if it was done at random. "" Not at all, "" he said. "" They arrange it by ratings on the first round. After that, winners play winners, and losers, losers. '' When her card was finally put up it said '' Harmon-Unr -- Black. "" It was put under one that said "" Packer-Unr -- White. "" The two cards were by the number Twenty-seven. They turned out to be the last two. She walked over to Board Twenty-seven and" 1988:MAG "-- Seven new faces in the Senate. # 91 # WORLD: As the next Administration prepares to take charge, the search is on for fresh approaches to Central America # Ronald Reagan has presided over neither the democratization of the region nor the disintegration of the Communists -- no winners, only losers. The new Administration must find a better policy. -- The military tightens itschokehold in Burma, even as it promises reforms and elections. -- For the first time in eleven years, all of Pakistan' s parties are taking part in a national political campaign. # 109 # BUSINESS" 1983:MAG "Am says its only interest is economic. When the airline halted service to Taiwan in order to secure Chinese approval for flights to the mainland, it expected a bonanza of tourist and business traffic. But no: competitors say its two round trips a week are only one-third full and real money losers. '' For an airline that is already bleeding red ink, '' says thePeking representative of a rival Western carrier, "" that can only be bad news. "" Even Pan Am says the flights are only marginally profitable. The U.S.-Taiwan run looks much more lucrative: the thousands of Taiwanese" 1989:MAG "the confessionals of Communists declaring their system a failure and searching for a peaceful way out, he realized that he had to move gingerly. # Before he left home, Bush wrote Mikhail Gorbachev that his trip was not designed to stir up trouble in the Soviets' backyard. '' Winners, losers -- that's not what this is about, '' he insisted on Air ForceOne, as he sped toward Warsaw. # The delicate challenge was to encourage the faltering nations to embrace democratic reforms and move toward a free-market economy mostly on their own, without provoking another era of repression from" 1983:MAG "some new indication that Cuomo, for all his air of enlightened benevolence, has n't forgiven a single harsh syllable uttered against him during last year's primary campaign, in which Koch, who had defeated him in the 1977 race for mayor, por -- trayed him as one of life's losers. Despite their own sharp differ -- ences with the Mayor over the years,Goldin and Miss Bellamy joined nearly all the prominent Democratic leaders in the city and state in giving Koch their strong endorsement. On Primary Night, there was a curious develop -- ment. Goldin was with the Mayor" 1984:NEWS "points at 3: 30 p. m. EDT and then closed at 1126. 88, off 7. 17 points. The transportation indicator also fell, but the utility average posted a small rise. The downturn was less apparent in the broader market than in the industrial average. New York Stock Exchange losers led gainers by only about 7-to-6. A big part of the industrial average's setback was accounted for by Merck, which skidded 4 5/8 to 86 1/8 in active trading. "" The psychology of the market is dominated by interest rates, as illustrated by the sharp rally on Monday when" 1989:NF "? namely, his discovery of the wave character of electromagnetism. The electric oscillations of the condenser do not continue forever, but cease after a certain time, which means that the condenser has lost all its energy , just as the pendulum does. A very important difference marks these two energy losers, however; the | pendulum loses all its energy through friction (heat), but this is not so for the condenser. Even if the friction in the discharging circuit of the condenser is reduced to zero, the condenser loses all its electrical energy very quickly? it radiates the energy" 1984:NEWS "just another name for left-wing investing and call it financially irresponsible. Whatever it' s called, it' s spreading. Several mutual funds, money market funds and newsletters catering to politically active clients have sprung up in the past two years. Traditional investment firms deride the investments as impractical money losers, but proponents predict that a good track record will eventually make this kind ofinvesting common. "" By 1990, the idea of social investing will be good investing, "" says Wayne Silby, chairman of Calvert Group of Washington, D.C. "" It won' t be considered different. """ 1982:MAG "adults who are not junkies, runaways or suicidal delinquents. Too often, the older generation is led to believe that "" kids today are just no good "" by publications such as yours. The article overflows with generalizations about the entire youth population, making us out to be a generation of losers. Except for a brief, gratuitous paragraph in the introduction, nowhere do youspeak of the capable, well-balanced people that most teenagers are. Quite simply, the article was a stereotypical cliche. It provided no new or insightful views on today's youth, but was merely a catchy," 1980:MAG "at a time he also is confronted by the problems of Iran and Afghanistan? Answers to this and other questions come from our correspondents in Washington and the Middle East. What is the U.S. stake in the talks ? If Sadat-Begin negotiations break down, America could wind up one of the biggest losers of all. A stalemate over the Palestinians would come at a time when theentire Mideast and its vital oil supplies are threatened by the erratic course of Iran's Islamic revolution and Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Carter has sought to meet the Soviet challenge by lining up friends, allies and" 1983:MAG "than the other. As a result, the campaign has degenerated into a referendum on who is responsible for the present economic mess. If Venezuelans decide to blame the A.D., Lusinchi will lose; if they decide to blame the incumbents, Caldera will lose. But in either case the teal losers will, as usual, be the majority of Venezuelans. It is easier tounderstand Venezuela's economic dilemma than it is to apportion blame for it. In 1973, petroleum prices tripled. Three years later the government nationalized the oil industry and drew up a plan for development based on the" 1988:MAG "him. But he is not enough of an athlete and he'll never have fast enough starts -- not unless he has a gorilla push him. But his declared goal is simple participation, so he is realistic . '' // Indeed, simple participation is the declared goal of all of the losers who will appear at Calgary. So when you watch a Virgin Island bobsled zig-zagdown the run or an anxious Senegalese snowplow down Mount Allan, remind yourself between belly laughs that you are watching the last true Olympic amateurs." 1985:MAG "Voice Competition. "" If you win this competition, "" said Pavarotti at the outset, "" it promises you an opportunity. But more important, if you do not win, it does n't mean you will not have a career. '' Still, the expansive Italian could not designate many losers. The day the competition ended, Pavarotti celebrated with an early cake for his50th birthday and announced he had decided on 54 winners. There is more winnowing yet to be done, however; only some will get to sing with him in upcoming Philadelphia productions. "" They are all scared" 1984:NEWS "a purported class suit that attempted to enjoin the company from proceeding with a plan to go private. Park Electrochemical fell 7/8 to 28 1/2; the company said it couldn' t explain the weakness. The Nasdaq composite index inched up 0. 61 to 243. 45 in over-the-counter trading. Gainers ledlosers 721 to 685. Turnover quickened to 57, 260, 800 shares from 55, 126, 100 on Monday. CharterCorp skidded 9 1/2 to 38 1/2; it said a director who sought control of the company agreed to resign from the board and sell to the company his 365, 637" 1984:MAG "in his event. The popular Willie Banks was sixth in the triple jump. But no one raised more eyebrows than 110-meter hurdler Greg Foster, suspecting a false-start, hesitated for a split second and got nipped at the wire by American outsider Roger Kingdom. In the end, though, the loserswere gracious and, In their own way, as inspiring as anyone who gotthe gold. Watching high jumper Dwight Stones, a veteran of the' 76 Games, come back at age 30 to place fourth was a bittersweet 11th-hour moment. There were mixed reviews for the several new Olympic" 1984:MAG "of all five nominees for each statuette as the envelope is being opened and the victor announced. The winner, predictably, explodes in the ecstasies so familiar to devotees of the late lamented "" Let's Make a Deal. '' True voyeurs, though, should stare at the faces of the losers, who struggle to hold their unflinching grins, all the while applauding as ifpossessed. And then they turn to their escorts (if it's the award for Best Actress) and nod vigorously, as if to say, "" Meryl really deserved it. I knew she would get it" 1984:NEWS "Hovnanian Enterprises advanced 3/8 to 12 1/2; it reported net for its third quarter, ended Nov. 30, of 25 cents a share, up from profit of continuing operations of nine cents a year earlier. The Nasdaq composite index rose 0. 36 to 287. 63 in over-the-counter trading. Gainers led losers 876 to 667. Turnover quickened to 67, 450, 700 shares from 66, 578, 800 on Monday. Genentech gained 2 3/4 to 41 3/4; it expects to report that 1983 revenue exceeded the prior year' s total by 40% to 50%. Drexler Technology slipped 1 3/4 to" 1988:MAG "be one of the best years for Olympic losers. Indeed, as a group, they will be more exotic than the winners, more glamorous and probably more charming and definitely better for belly laughs. // In one sense -- a mathematical sense -- any Olympics is almost entirely about losing and losers. Figure it out. Roughly 1,750 competitors are entered in the Calgary 1988 WinterGames, but there are only 96 gold medals to be awarded -- and only 35 of those are individual medals; the rest are duplicate golds awarded in team sport events, like the 30 golds set aside for" 1981:MAG "what the people asked for. "" At the state level, the situation is somewhat different in that statehouses will have more control over how money from federal block grants is spent. Nevertheless, states are nervous. Kentucky may be deprived of 400 million dollars, officials there say. The big losers: Food-stamp funds, publicservice jobs and 31 million in cuts from the black-lung-disability trustfund for the state's coal miners. - Maine could see the evaporation of 180 million dollars in federal aid. "" We are talking about several thousand jobs | affected directly or indirectly, "" says Rodney Scribner" 1983:FIC "the pairings posted. When they were putting the names on the board Beth asked the man next to her if it was done at random. "" Not at all, "" he said. "" They arrange it by ratings on the first round. After that, winners play winners, and losers, losers. '' When her card was finally put up it said '' Harmon-Unr-- Black. "" It was put under one that said "" Packer-Unr -- White. "" The two cards were by the number Twenty-seven. They turned out to be the last two. She walked over to Board" 1988:MAG "high before the vote that Owen's backers refused to sleep in the same hotel as the promerger forces. Social Democratic President Shirley Williams angrily accused Owen, a former Labor Foreign Minister, of "" acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis '' and warned that '' all of us will belosers '' if the proposed union did not pass. '' Mergerites '' tried to blocka rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams. # The vote delighted members of the Liberal Party, which approved the merger three weeks ago." 1988:MAG "had trained for the Games by sliding down the pyramids. He finished 60th out of a field of 60 in the downhill, 46th out of 47 in the slalom, and failed to complete his first run in the giant slalom and was thus eliminated. // Also among Sarajevo's momentarily famous losers were Erroll Fraser, a black speed skater from the British Virgin Islands who was40th of 42 in the 500-meter and 42nd of 43 in the 1,000-meter events; La-mine Gueye, a Senegalese downhill skier who is a model and actor in real life and finished 51st in the downhill (14 seconds" 1984:NEWS "24 points in yesterday' s first half hour, putting it above its closing high of 1287. 20 set last Nov. 29. But the gain slowly faded and the index finished at 1278. 48, off 7. 74 points. The transportation and utility indicators also closed lower. New York Stock Exchange losers lagged most of the day but, at the final bell, were ahead ofgainers by 867 to 795. "" The market was consolidating after its recent gains, but its failure to follow through after the industrial and transportation averages reached new highs during the morning was moderately disappointing, "" commented" 1981:NEWS "It means rather that sacrifice can be shared by many to reverse the trend. The United States, today, in its basic industries, needs a second Industrial Revolution. The currently fashionable notion of "" backing the winners instead of the losers '' is as facile as it is shallow. The losers today are automotive, steel, glass, rubber, andather basic industries. Thethought that this nation can function while writing off its basic industries to foreign competition is nonsense. Nothing is more inhuman than unemployment, nothing is more inflationary than unemployment, coupled with trade adjustment payments on top of" 1988:FIC "looks that way. UNCLE DANEDo n't let that big city steal you away from us, now. Pause. KATE smiles at him. Her face seems drawn and tired now. KATEDane? Have you ever shot a horse before? REACTION ON UNCLE DANE. ð UNCLE DANEOnly the losers. CUT TO: ANGLE ON KATE, SMILING. CUT TO: Section DetailsMEL TROTTING through the birch tree forest with a wide white X on his forehead. CUT TO: BIRCH TREE FOREST -- WILDERNESS. CUT TO: HAYSTACKS. CUT TO: THE HOUSE. -- 61 -- CLOSE ON AN" 1986:FIC """ Might happen to us? "" Ben asked quietly. Mike nodded. "" Yes. That's exactly what I'm afraid of. "" Bill said: "" Then tell us what you can, Mike. '' '' All right, '' he said. '' I will. '' The Losers Get the Scoop '' The murders have started again, '' Mike said flatly.He looked up and down the table, and then his eyes fixed on Bill's. "" The first of the new murders' -- if you'll allow me that rather grisly conceit -- began on the Main" 1986:FIC ", and like Bill's hand, his voice trembled a little. "" To the Losers' Club of 1958. "" "" The Losers, "" Beverly said, slightly amused. "" The Losers, "" Eddie said. His face was pale and old behind his rimless glasses. '' The Losers, '' Ben agreed. A faint and painful smile ghosted at the corners ofhis mouth. "" The Losers, "" Mike Hanlon said softly. "" The Losers, "" Bill finished. Their glasses touched. They drank. That silence fell again, and this time Richie did not break" 1981:NEWS "fumes. // The wealthy, new and old, hedge in the Argentine tradition of sending money to Zurich and buying land - or at least apartments - in Punta del Este, Miami and New York as well as here. <> <>' Horror' Story About Maids // But there are also losers, even among the rich. One matronly dowager who was approached in a foodmarket complained bitterly. Before, she had two live-in maids. Now she has only one maid come twice a week. "" A horror, "" she said. // Picking among the onions and apples at Mr. Piro" 1981:NEWS "Irritable Colon Syndrome, ""? published in 1962 in the Quarterly Journal of Medicine, two doctors described gut reactors as people "" unable to take life calmly, "" and pointed out that most of these people happen to be female. These women are not poor, worried about cancer, or losers in the game of life, said the doctors. They're in good physicalshape, but they're just nervous, almost all of the time. SO, according to the doctors, the women use their stomach distress "" to represent a particular mode of responses to a difficult life situation" 1980:NEWS "d hit a game-tying homer and then watched Yankee fans tear up the stadium infield and each other after Chris Chambliss had won the playoffs with a ninth-inning blast. Two autumns later, he had clouted three home runs in the final game, but wound up sitting dejectedly on a stool in a losers' dressing room, his team a victim of Thurman Munson' s 430-footer intothe monuments in left-center. But last night, the honor and the glory and the spoils belonged to George Brett, whose dramatic three-run seventh-inning home run gave the Kansas CityRoyals the American League championship. Brett hit it" 1983:MAG "Unity will come, perhaps not in our lifetime, but we hope in the next generation, "" predicted executives of the Lutheran World Federation ("" Augsburgian Catholics, "" they described themselves to me) in Geneva 's Ecumenical Center. '' But unity in a new form? without winners or losers. '' IS IT CONCEIVABLE that Martin Luther's excommunication will ever be lifted?I pursued the matter in the Vatican itself. Politely but firmly officials parried my question. Clearly, the time still is not ripe. At dusk I emerged on St. Peter's Square. Bernini's colonnades enclosed" 1986:NEWS "to eight a year and was beginning to receive bookings from satellite owners who had previously hoped to launch their payloads from the space shuttle. For example, GTE Corporation and the British government have both in recent weeks asked Arianespace to put into orbit payloads previously earmarked for the shuttle. // The main losers from the suspension of US and European launches are companies and governments which over thenext two years had hoped to launch about 30 communications satellites into geostationary orbit, most of them by either Ariane or the shuttle fleet. // The commercial launch business is worth about $500 million a year, and," 1989:NF "producing slightly different results in the share allocated to particular states. As long as Congress was willing to increase the number of seats in the House, as it did throughout the nineteenth century, the decennial conflict could be eased by adding,, a few more seats to take care of the losers. That solution was no longer available after 1910 when the membership of the Housewas fixed by law | at 435. It proved to be impossible to agree on a formula in connection with the 1920 census and hence no reapportionment took place? the only time that has happened. Recognizing the" 1984:NEWS "a 319, 000-share block was handled mostly by Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb at 40 1/2. Diamond Shamrock rose 1/4 to 20 1/4; a 250, 000-share block handled by Smith Barney Harris Upham traded at 20. The American Stock Exchange index inched up 0. 02 to 227. 24 with gainers andlosers nearly in balance. Turnover totaled 8, 350, 000 shares, little changedfrom 8, 340, 000 on Monday. Among Amex gainers, Petro-Lewis climbed 1 1/4 to 11 1/2; new interest has been stirred in Petro-Lewis as a takeover candidate in the wake of Texaco' s move" 1989:MAG "of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers. Why would a white person go to this Harlem, except to buy drugs? # Now pose the question to a white European visiting New York City, and brace yourself for a surprise. He will inform you that black Harlem is one of the city's main attractions; that its" 1989:FIC "Richard Widmark laugh. He looked over at Dino. "" He do n't understand the ques-tion. "" Dino leaned over at Barry. "" He wants to know who the other players were in this card game. He might wan na play with these guys himself, if they're such good losers. '' It was damp and cold in this back room, but it feltasp142if he had a mouth full of cotton. "" Fellas, "" he pleaded, "" what's goin' on here? "" AI opened his coat. Barry could see the gun. It was too big" 1986:FIC "'s all, "" Richie said comfortably. As in the old days, you could knock him off-balance, but he was like one of those inflatable Joe Palooka dolls with sand in the base -- he floated upright again almost at once. '' That was one of your little contributions to the Losers' Club, wasn't it, Haystack? '' '' Yeah, I guessit was. "" "" What a man! "" Richie said in a trembling, awestruck voice and then began to salaam over the table, nearly sticking his nose in his tea-cup each time he went down." 1989:NF "that engenders confusion and guarantees discontinuity in the political process. Because of the high costs? tangible and intangible? of seeking presidential nomination, and because of the unfavorable odds (only one can win in each party , though sometimes a consolation prize in the form of a vice-presidential nomination goes to losers), some persons who are seemingly well qualified for the presidency decline to pursuethe nomination. Other well-qualified prospects often fail to meet the various political criteria that come into play, some of them defensible, others not. One of the most important is the right type of prior political experience" 1988:MAG "30 golds set aside for the winning hockey team. It requires only simple arithmetic to realize that when the Olympics are over, there will be more than 1,600 losers -- or that losers will outnumber winners by a ratio of roughly 17 to one. // But there are losers and there are losers. Many Olympians in Calgary will be defeated by close, respectable margins. Theseare world-class athletes who will be nosed out by other world-class athletes; athletes who competed with the firm conviction that they really had a chance to finish No. 1 in their event. For some, a silver or" 1983:NEWS "same players next fall before the season starts and not just after it? Perhaps Meyer has learned that it takes more than rules to mold respect. Perhaps Meyer has learned it takes more than talent to win in the NFL and that coaching and strategy gives the winners the thin edge over thelosers as much as discipline does. Perhaps Meyer has learned that his way is notthe only way. If he has, then he will be a coach. 509 The main battle on" 1983:MAG "bloodied. There are no time-outs, except to allow one stunned player to totter cross-eyed off the field, take a whiff of smelling salts from the shopping-bag medical kit, and return to battle. Eighty minutes later , Carmarthen has lost, 12-0. The winners line up and formally applaud thelosers off the field, and both teams adjourn to the clubhouse for a dinner preparedby players' wives, plus liberal liquid first aid. Rugby is a thing of personal and national honor. More than 180 clubs compete in amateur Welsh Rugby Union play, supported only by membership fees. Players" 1988:MAG "337150 "" I can not conceal my remorse, "" read the ad splashed across the front page of every daily newspaper in South Korea. Unusual though it was, the public apology by Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam, 60, was only the first to be offered by losers of South Korea's first free presidential election in 16 years. Rival Dissident LeaderKim Dae Jung, 62, issued his mea culpa two days later, conceding his "" unbearably heavy responsibility "" for the victory two weeks ago of Roh Tae Woo, 55, the candidate of the ruling Democratic" 1986:FIC "You could go find some ice And just skate (BITSY enters to join JUSTINE.) p. 7 BITSY My mom says winning is a zero -- sum situation. JUSTINE A what? BITSY For every winner, there 's a loser, right? I mean, you can't have winners without losers. Winners minus losers equals zero. And zero plus zero is not exactly progress. JUSTINE But what if you're winning. And you keep winning. BITSY My mom says sports is just aggression. JASON What's wrong with that? BITSY She says we have sports and the stock market" 1980:MAG "in an American dream. It is hard, reading them, to find in oneself much hope for an American future, save the skepticism and irony about authority that has become a national characteristic and saving grace. There are exceptions to all this, of course: Gloria Emerson's Winners and Losers, Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, or Ron Kovic's Born onthe Fourth of July. Yet none of thesebooks, for all their obvious passion and truth, suggests a way out of our present moral predicament or confronts the reader with his own responsibilities. Only Gloria Emerson," 1983:FIC "there in a long while -- before Hawaii -- before the days of fat little Maxie Sholto. He shuddered when he thought of Maxie. Fortunately he had woken up to reality before it was too late. No more drugs and orgies for Buddy Boy. That scene was purely for life's losers. Flitting on Gladrags for work was one thing. Maxie Sholto was a wholedifferent ballgame. "" Buddy! Good t'see you. Where y'been hiding? "" He waved at the barman. "" Around, "" he replied. "" Here and there. What's happening? "" "" Same" 1989:MAG ", partial shares and cash grants. // Last year the pool was $11,969,881. Under baseball's current allocation system, 36% of that went to the team that won the World Series, the Dodgers; 27% to the team they beat, the A's; 25% was divided between the playoff losers (the Mets and the Red Sox); 9.5% was divided between the fourteams that finished second in each division; and 2.5% was split four ways among the teams that finished third (five ways in 1988, because the Brewers and the Blue Jays tied in the American League East)" 1986:FIC "could be detected at an even greater range, generating a return signal, that would potentially allow the Soviets to circle the formation, pinpoint it, then converge in from all points of the compass. The game was hide and seek, played over a million square miles of ocean. The losers died. NORTH ATLANTIC The Soviet Bear-D reconnaissance bombers were passing south of Iceland.There were ten of them, covering a front of a thousand miles. The monstrous propeller-driven aircraft were packed full of electronics gear and crewed by men with years of training and experience in locating the American carrier groups" 1989:NEWS "Yes, we' re not quite as effective without her. But the reason we beat people is because they don' t have the talent we do anyway. Someone' s going to have to pick up the slack with Jenny being out. There are no excuses. Excuses are for losers. '' Track and field Downers Grove South officials narrowly avoided a major scoring snafuSaturday. State series meets are scored on a 6-4-3-2-1 basis, but nobody saw that in their packets of materials from the IHSA and began scoring the meet based on 10 points for a first-place finish. But when" 1986:FIC "hand in the air and grasped his aspirator tightly in the other. "" Way to go, Eds, "" Richie said. "" We're really gon na have ourselves some chucks this time, I bet. '' '' Beep-beep, Richie, '' Eddie said in a wavering voice. The Losers Get Dessert '' So what's your one idea, Mike? '' Bill asked. The mood had been broken by Rose, the hostess, who had come in with a dish of fortune cookies. She looked around at the six people who had their hands in the air with a carefully" 1989:FIC "fact that they're not as bad as you'd hoped. RACHELI do n't have to accept anything. Our attendance is only beginning to rise. If we can force a losing streak for a week or two, we can still turn this thing around. The fans are used to losers here. At the first sign of a slump they'll give up on thisteam. DONOVANWhat's left to do? You've taken away everything you can. RACHELNot everything. CUT TO: Section Details 128 EXT. RURAL HIGHWAY - DAY We pick up a decrepit old Greyhound" 1980:MAG "they change their name to US Steal, from the investor's point of view that corporate headquarters in Pitts? burgh is still a turkey roost. On a case by case basis, no one industry group seems to dominate the roster, so let's arbitrarily start with the three- and four-time losers, the corporations that would, if they were flesh and blood and not legalfictions, be called recidivists. Take Braniff Interna? tional: four trips to court in the last 10 years in cases involving slush funds and criminal restraint of trade. Although the company president and his glamorous wife" 1984:NF ", as well as the general food intake, has declined constantly since the advent of colonialism. In this, as in so many other respects, the histories of the metropoles and the peripheries present us with a stark contrast, whereby capitalism has harvested food for the winners, hunger for the losers: Only in the course of the last two hundred years, since the IndustrialRevolution, has an adequate diet come to be assured to most of that third of mankind living in the rich countries of North America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan and Australia Brown and Finterbush, 1972" 1980:NEWS "In 1976, 22 African nations recalled their athletes from Montreal because New Zealand was not banned for allowing its national rugby team to tour South Africa. Except for historians, most people who followed those games remembered the supreme performances of individual athletes and promptly forgot the gestures of national protest. The losers were the athletes from the protesting nations, not the Olympics or the host nations. No nation has won much praise outside its own borders for boycotting the games. The boycotts were widely perceived as picayune, empty gestures in the wrong forum. Politics will haunt the 1980 Olympics in a unique" 1981:FIC "her glass in response. "" Everybody's gone, "" she said, sensing her own deliberate mischief. He finished off the scotch and poured another. "" I saw two Italian pictures. Down and Dirty and Bread and Chocolate. The place was nearly empty. Just one or two other losers. I would have seen the pictures over again, but they cleared the theater. Christmas Eve. The projectionist, I suppose, wanted to be home with his family. Home with his family. Such simple joys. "" He sighed and poured himself another drink. He looked up suddenly" 1986:FIC "slightly amused. "" The Losers, "" Eddie said. His face was pale and old behind his rimless glasses. "" The Losers, "" Ben agreed. A faint and painful smile ghosted at the corners of his mouth. '' The Losers, '' Mike Hanlon said softly. '' The Losers, '' Bill finished. Their glasses touched. They drank. That silence fellagain, and this time Richie did not break it. This time the silence seemed necessary. They sat back down and Bill said, "" So spill it, Mike. Tell us what's been happening here" 1982:MAG "Still, doubts persist. "" If they are not careful, "" commented one former VOA director, "" they are going to lose the credibility that has been built up over the past 25 years. In the end, that will destroy whatever propaganda value the broadcasts have. '' Winners and Losers When victories and defeats are toted up in the propaganda war, both sides canclaim a number of successes? if only limited ones. The Soviets clearly have made advances in Europe and some Third | World countries, although their gains may be more the fruit of U.S. policy than of any" 1988:NEWS "hard by the drought are also buying back collateralized grain. But with this year' s crop yields likely to be skimpy in those regions, most will have to hoard the grain to make sure they can feed livestock and miss out on the generous price spread. Texas has both winners and losers this year. '' Its kind of a good news-bad news year, '' saysRodney Mosier, executive assistant for the Texas Wheat Producers Association. In several areas where rain has been ample, Texas wheat farmers have more than doubled the state' s 29-bushel-per-acre average. "" If you have the" 1988:MAG "they would consider a request for aid from the Nicaraguan government -- a safe bet since they knew none would be forthcoming. Others seemed to rule out even that prospect, charging that the Sandinistas would only misuse the funds to further their campaign against the contras. As partisan politics raged, the losers were the 181,000 Nicaraguans who are now homeless. 339636 President Roh Tae Woo pledged last week that by year's end he would cleanse his government of the kind of abuses that stained the" 1984:MAG "this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained nothing in translation to contemporary San Francisco, where a dismal group of losers ineptly attempt to rob the safe of a pawnbroker who is, grumpily, theonly friend they have. # Neither touching nor humorous in their dimness, they can engender only one emotion: disgust. Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden and Wallace Shawn are among those trying to find some overtone or" 1989:MAG "on-the-field leadership. As Gaston, one of the two black managers in baseball, puts it, "" If I was n't sitting in the dugout, I'd buy a ticket to see Mookie play. "" # The meek shall inherit the earth. In a rational universe, the Orioles (losers of 107 games last year) have no business nipping at the Blue Jays'heels. Aside from their lone star, indestructible shortstop Cal Ripken Jr., the O's represent an amalgam of rookies and major-league rejects. A typical lineup includes six players who have been released or traded cheaply by" 1980:MAG "who have to pause to be refreshed, Coke may be their drink. If you have n't done so by the time you read this, talk to your tax person immediately about last-minute moves to cut what you owe. That means it's dog-dump? ing time. Get rid of those losers, those bad picks among your investments. Only after you've shot the dogs, euthanasiadzed the kitties, qualified for your tax toss, and burrowed into your tax shelter, should you exhale and join the Fool in wishing all a happy holiday and a very, very prosperous New Year." 1984:NEWS "steep declines in several blue-chip issues and pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 2. 10 points to close at 1177. 23. Trading volume also picked up steam, increasing to 94, 270, 000 shares from 76 , 840, 000 Tuesday. At the closing bell on the Big Board, losers were still slightly ahead of gainers, but everyone' s attention was focused onthe turnaround in the blue chips. International Business Machines closed up 1 at 121 7/8 after being down more than 2 points earlier in the day. General Motors finished up 3/4 at 75 3/4; the day'" 1981:NEWS "- Despite his devotion to the law and legal procedure, John Wall has a peculiar cynicism about the possibilities for real justice. "" One thing I always tell my clients, "" he says, "" is that there' s no such thing as justice, there' s only winners and losers. The ideals of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are always there,and we strive for them, but you have to fight like hell. When justice does happen, its almost an accident. "" That Wall does get impassioned about legal principles, regardless of the personalities involved," 1984:NEWS ". Koppers gained 1 1/2 to 21 3/4; a 310, 100-share block handled in the over-the-counter market by Jefferies traded at 22. Melville, which expects to report lower first-quarter profit, fell 1 5/8 to 32 7/8. The American Stock Exchange index rose 0. 12 to 204. 82, but losers held a slim lead over winners. Turnover of 6, 110, 000 shareswas little changed from Monday' s 6, 010, 000 total. Michigan Sugar was a standout Amex performer, leaping 12 7/8 to 42 3/4; Savannah Foods &; Industries agreed to buy Michigan Sugar for $43." 1984:MAG "create an event called the embarrathon? No outright boycotts permitted, but somewhere on the regular schedule of every Olympics would be an occasion for any participating nation to needle or humiliate any other nation. Medals would be presented, as in the athletic events, but in the embarrathon both winners and losers would be asked to mount the platforms so that the world might jeer or smirkas it chose. Or are we getting desperate? # It may be heartening to point out that in the long and murky history of the Games things have looked considerably bleaker. For centuries after their founding," 1985:MAG "National Book Award for Fiction, and Gaddis went back to doing whatever it is literary comets do on their elliptical journeys between publication dates. # One thing he did was teach a college course on the theme of failure in the American novel. Not so coincidentally, Carpenter's Gothic is about losers in a competitive society. Gaddis reveals his characters in snatches of dialogue: ''-- Will you listen to me? Trying to tell you they're taking you to court here, anybody comes to the door do n't open it. Stumpp serving a summons on you some seedy process server comes" 1983:NEWS "a model democracy or a force for stability. But the insurgents we have supported are the remnants of the old Somoza regime -a regime whose corruption, graft, torture, and despotism made it universally despised in Nicaragua . The Sandinistas may not be winners, but right now we are backing sure losers. We are doing for the Sandinista Marxists what they could not do for themselves. We are weakening the very groups inside Nicaragua which believe in a free and democratic society. And that is the sad irony of this Administration' s policy. // Third, we must restore America' s role" 1986:FIC "a V. Give us an I. Give us a D. JUSTINE I think I decided I wanted some attention. So I told my mother that I wanted to play hockey. p. 4 DAVID (to audience) My dad says hockey is like life. You know, it's about winners and losers and getting out there and fighting. He says I like it because of theadrenalin. But why do I like the adrenalin? JUSTINE The coach says David thinks too much. It slows him down. DAVID I like the feeling you get skating out on new ice. I like the" 1986:FIC ". Richie rose slowly to his feet, and one by one the others followed suit: Bill first, then Ben and Eddie, Beverly, and finally Mike Han/ion. "" To us, "" Richie said, and like Bill's hand, his voice trembled a little. '' To the Losers' Club of 1958. '' '' The Losers, '' Beverly said, slightlyamused. "" The Losers, "" Eddie said. His face was pale and old behind his rimless glasses. "" The Losers, "" Ben agreed. A faint and painful smile ghosted at the corners of his" 1986:MAG ", which government officials until recently have tried to play down. 333254 Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. Last week the Miss Thailand World contest ended up in aguerrilla-style skirmish that looked more like a nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put" 1988:MAG "a luger from the Philippines. // They are more or less the predictable garden variety of abject Olympic loser -- doughty, slightly weird and fun -- but they scarcely present a truly great vintage by themselves. No , what will make Calgary' 88 memorable is the presence of a couple of losers with royal blood and jet-set connections. // A pair of real-life loser princes willbe performing for our entertainment. Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe, 29, who bears a title that traces its roots to 14th-century Bohemia, expects to ski for Mexico in the Alpine events. And His Serene Highness Prince" 1981:FIC "It was the start of all Prince wanted: to impress, stay out of jail, and win. Once he had been inside for fifteen days. A six-by-eight cell with iron bars, twenty watts of light , a dripping faucet, a clogged piss hole, and three cellmates, all losers. That was all, that was enough. Fifteen days to think, fifteennights to feel bugs crawling through your bed, to breathe the stench of vomit and filth, to hear junkies sob, to see men humiliated like animals. Shortly before he was to leave, a young hustler" 1984:NEWS "up just 1. 68 points on Monday, climbed an additional 9. 32 points in yesterday' s first 2 1/2 hours; but the index then began backtracking and finished at 1138. 30, up 4. 40 points. The transportation and utility indicators also moved higher. New York Stock Exchange gainers outdistancedlosers by a modest margin of about 8 to 7. '' The market continued followingthe trend in interest rates, but mostly it was treading water, "" observed Peter J. DaPuzzo, senior executive vice president at Shearson/American Express. "" The light volume indicated no real investor conviction, and the lack" 1987:MAG "Mary Baker became dean of Fort Berthold Community College in 1975 after earning a master's degree in education at Penn State University. Now her goal is a doctorate in curriculum development, with emphasis on a realistic portrayal of Indian history and cultural values. '' In white education Indians are always the losers. Either we're portrayed as the bad guys or there's too much noblesavage' nonsense. Each tribe is different, with its own history and tradition. We have our own rivalries and our own bad guys and good guys. It's important that white teachers understand Indians without stereotyping" 1980:MAG "earlier wars, those who do cite the uniqueness of Viet Nam. Says Jeffrey Steinberg, a Santa Rosa, Calif., lawyer who parlayed a PTSD defense into an acquittal for a client accused of assault: "" The vets were viewed by the public as baby killers, as a bunch of losers. They found difficulty in justifying themselves. '' # An ex-G.I.' s PTSDmay not show up for years. When it does, notes Psychologist John Wilson, there is usually some precipitating stress, like divorce or loss of job. Occasionally, says Wilson, who has aided the defense" 1984:NEWS "Pete plans a prospectus preparatory to a substantial equity issue. National Patent Development climbed 3 3/8 to 18 7/8; the Food and Drug Administration approved the company' s caries-removal system, a substitute for tooth drilling. The Nasdaq composite index eased 0. 74 to 236. 25, in over-the-counter trading. Losers outweighed gainers 750-to-638. Turnover expanded to 61, 786, 900 shares from 50, 777, 600 on Monday. Comdata Network fell 1 3/4 to 13 3/4; C.W. Harter Jr., chief executive officer, has been hospitalized for cancer, and will undergo surgery. U.S. Health Care Systems climbed" 1988:MAG "be awarded -- and only 35 of those are individual medals; the rest are duplicate golds awarded in team sport events, like the 30 golds set aside for the winning hockey team. It requires only simple arithmetic to realize that when the Olympics are over, there will be more than 1,600 losers -- or that losers will outnumber winners by a ratio of roughly 17 to one. // But there are losers and there are losers. Many Olympians in Calgary will be defeated by close, respectable margins. These are world-class athletes who will be nosed out by other world-class athletes; athletes who" 1983:MAG "after expanding too fast. The test for some carriers could come quickly, since the late winter months are normally slack ones for air travel. # Astonishingly enough, however, such gloom has not prevented a number of airlines from raising cash on Wall Street, which is not notably kind tolosers. Although TWA dropped $101.3 million in 1982, for example, it announced planslast week for an offering of 5 million shares of common stock, designed to bring in up to $85 million. Moneymen treated that news with interest rather than as a sign of financial chutzpah. U.A.L., the" 1981:MAG "variety of changes "" in welfare, food stamps, the school-lunch program, student-loan programs, Medicaid and Federal retirement programs. By streamlining current benefit formulas, he said, the Administration hopes to save $2.6 billion in ' 82, $10 billion in 1983 and another $15 billion in 1984. The losers would be limited, he argued, to relatively prosperous families who now benefit fromvague or poorly drawn eligibility rules, but Democrats took a different view. The President, said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, was trying to "" afflict the afflicted in order to comfort the comfortable. """ 1989:NEWS "trade in and trade up, "" cutting or discarding ineffective or outdated programs to pay for new ones of greater importance. It was a sound idea then and it still is. But Bush has changed the rules to let the President designate winners, while Congress bears the onus of naming the losers. Congress hates making such choices, of course, and would prefer not to. But to avoid choices, the Democrats will have to find more revenues, and that could mean t-a-x-e-s. Many Democrats know taxes are needed, but the party is paralyzed by fear. And that paralysis lets" 1987:MAG "will be colossal. Chrysler's rescue, a loan guarantee worth $1.5 billion, generated Washington a $311 million profit. The rescue of Continental Illinois may result in little net cost. Not so with FCS. A 1985 plan to force financially healthy member banks to share surplus funds with their moneylosers only pulled the strong down with the weak. A federal court in February stoppedthe share-the-wealth scheme. Losses continue to mount? nearly $4 billion the past two years. Reserves set aside to cover these losses have plunged from $3.4 billion to $1.5 billion since 1985, and the FCS still has" 1986:FIC "one by one the others followed suit: Bill first, then Ben and Eddie, Beverly, and finally Mike Han/ion. "" To us, "" Richie said, and like Bill's hand, his voice trembled a little. '' To the Losers' Club of 1958. '' '' The Losers, '' Beverly said, slightly amused. '' The Losers, '' Eddie said. His face was pale and old behind his rimless glasses. "" The Losers, "" Ben agreed. A faint and painful smile ghosted at the corners of his mouth. "" The Losers, "" Mike Hanlon" 1988:MAG "only 35 of those are individual medals; the rest are duplicate golds awarded in team sport events, like the 30 golds set aside for the winning hockey team. It requires only simple arithmetic to realize that when the Olympics are over, there will be more than 1,600 losers -- or that losers will outnumber winners by a ratio of roughly 17 to one. // But thereare losers and there are losers. Many Olympians in Calgary will be defeated by close, respectable margins. These are world-class athletes who will be nosed out by other world-class athletes; athletes who competed with the firm" 1986:FIC "some ice And just skate (BITSY enters to join JUSTINE.) p. 7 BITSY My mom says winning is a zero -- sum situation. JUSTINE A what? BITSY For every winner, there's a loser, right? I mean, you can't have winners without losers. Winners minus losers equals zero. And zero plus zero is not exactly progress. JUSTINE But whatif you're winning. And you keep winning. BITSY My mom says sports is just aggression. JASON What's wrong with that? BITSY She says we have sports and the stock market and the nuclear arms" 1986:MAG "Service has kept them running. # The two bay geldings were confiscated after agents arrested Larry Renick of Killeen, Texas, in July 1985 for illegally operating a stimulant-producing lab. Fortunately, some $2 million in other assets was also seized, since the horses have turned out to be almost total losers. Flint Fire finished next to last in a field of eight last week atthe New Mexico State Fair. Golden Parachute finished dead last in a race two weeks ago. The horses' combined purses this year: $7,309. The money went into the U.S. Marshals Service Assets Forfeiture Fund," 1981:FIC "to think, fifteen nights to feel bugs crawling through your bed, to breathe the stench of vomit and filth, to hear junkies sob, to see men humiliated like animals. Shortly before he was to leave , a young hustler named Black Oscar joined his cell, replacing one of the losers. Small and alert as a weasel, Black Oscar used jail like a trainingcamp: starting the days with sit-ups and pushups in the cell, running in place on mess line, dressing in his prison garb as if he were going dancing in custom clothes, making contacts and conquests at" 1983:MAG "ads to find quick action. Senior citizens, the handicapped ("" I walk with a cane "") and those with concerns ("" SWM... seeks WF WITHOUT HERPES "") can come right to the point without hours of social jousting. Once the natural home of kinks and losers, the classified personals now attract people known to advertisers as '' upscale. ''Even the Village Voice, which handles about 50,000 replies to love personals each year, says its audience is "" mid-30s, affluent, with many professionals. "" # Some of the publications do have taboos. The" 1980:MAG "they change their name to US Steal, from the investor's point of view that corporate headquarters in Pitts? burgh is still a turkey roost. On a case by case basis, no one industry group seems to dominate the roster, so let's arbitrarily start with the three- and four-time losers, the corporations that would, if they were flesh and blood and not legalfictions, be called recidivists. Take Braniff Interna? tional: four trips to court in the last 10 years in cases involving slush funds and criminal restraint of trade." 1981:FIC "got a bum rap. Not only is Ma complaining more loudly than usual about how bad it is to be old without any grandchildren to make jam and bake cookies for, but also that her very own magic christian son is such a god-awful loser. Yup, one of life's real losers, I yam, I yam. The saddest thing I have to report toyou is that my husky, a great big gorgeous animal, kind of like I was when I was twenty, my Freddy, was murdered and eaten in cold blood by the weirdest twosome I've ever seen" 1985:MAG the forcing down of an unarmed Egyptian airliner by F-14 jets of the U.S. Navy. That lawless act served the interests of terrorism more than those of the United States. The same can be said of the recent Israeli air raid on the headquarters of the P.L.O. near Tunis. The real losers in this latest round of the battle against terrorism were not the captured Palestinian hijackersbut two important American allies: Tunisia and Egypt. President Reagan's initial remarks commending the Israeli bombing as a legitimate reprisal for the killing of three Israelis in Cyprus were most embarrassing for the government of President Habib 1987:MAG "NASA, both of which regard optics as crucial to S.D.I. and other military programs. Caulfield, for his part, sees helping Huntsville's industry with its R &D; projects -- both commercial and military -- as a major part of his mission. The Huntsville '' meritocracy, '' however, has losers as well as winners. The old property-owning elite of the city made out justfine, cashing in on Huntsville's growth by selling off real estate at escalating prices. But many holdovers from the old Huntsville who lacked the wealth to buy shares in the city's growth, including much of" 1983:NEWS "international community a real effort to throw themselves together, "" Mr. Shultz said. // "" They have lost countless lives, they have lost countless opportunities, which would create the kind of prosperous life that Lebanon is capable of producing, '' he said. '' The people of Lebanon are the biglosers and that' s what they have to think seriously about. '' // Mr. Shultzalso said the Government of Iraq could play a role in efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East. "" I think Iraq does have a potential constructive role to play in the Arab consideration of the Mideast peace" 1986:MAG """ says Michael Culp, who has munched tons of burgers and fries as restaurant analyst for PrudentialBache Securities. "" He did not strike a chord in consumers. I sense relative indifference. "" One reason may be that some potential customers of Burger King see themselves personified in Herb as nerds and losers. Burger King spokeswoman Joyce Myers says Herb was not meant to insult noncustomers butto be a "" lovable character through whom we can talk about our product. "" Burger King's business rose 7 percent in January from year-earlier levels. But Culp and others think the chain expected more from its" 1989:MAG "ladies, AIDS and nouvelle cuisine -- everything' 80s gets skewered, then sentimentalized, in this stylish satire transferred to Broadway. # FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE. Kathy Bates returns to the role she winsomely originated in Terrence McNally's off Broadway hit about love between two lonely losers. # PLATONOV. Romanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater. # MUSIC # THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part homage, part re- invention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of" 1981:NEWS ", fifth, and sixth-graders.'' The older kids told me to start young,'' he says,'' while children' s minds are still open and their ideas are still being formed.' ' // He begins his 45-minute presentation with a short film,'' Only Losers Play,'' produced for the National Coalition to Prevent Shoplifting (NCPS)and directed specifically at youngsters. // The film dramatizes typical situations involving the chief causes of youthful shoplifting: // Peer pressure: One boy dares another to steal candy with taunts of'' you' re chicken" 1982:MAG "playoffs. But this season the play-offs just hoped to live up to the division races. The unspeakable "" split season "" of 1981 was put behind for good on one final pretty day of regular play. # Maybe the Los Angeles Dodgers disagree, but there barely even seemed to be any losers. In the National League West, it was nice and democratic the way theSan Diego Padres beat the Atlanta Braves for the Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants beat the Dodgers for the Braves. In the dugout getting ready to hit in the seventh inning, 39 and not so sure that" 1981:FIC "are you different, m'Lord? "" Leto chuckled. "" Ahhh, Duncan, how I love your perceptiveness. You have observed that I am the ultimate alien. Do you not wonder if I also can be a loser? '' '' The thought has crossed my mind. '' '' Even losers can shroud themselves in the proud mantle of the past,' old friend."" "" Are you and Nunepi alike in that? "" "" Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past,' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind -- that false sense of freedom from" 1986:FIC """ When he had collected his breath, Jean-Luc said, "" As there is no clear opinion and even our revered mullah is not sure, I, Jean-Luc, declare Nitchak Khan the winner by a nostril. '' There were cheers and even more as he added, '' And as the losers lost so bravely, I award them with another of Tom's bottles of whiskywhich I will commandeer to be shared by all expats at sundown! "" Everyone shook hands with everyone. Nitchak Khan agreed to another challenge match next month and, as he honored the law and did not drink"