1998:MAG "included in up to three different tests at up to five different mountains. And because the situations were different every time, the reviews of the same ski sometimes varied from one test to the next. On the following 36 pages, you won't find numbers and statistics and definitive winners andlosers. What you will find is a series of critical reviews based on ski experiencesin real situations. Our veteran ski testers found this to be our most revealing test yet. We're sure you will, too. - THE EDITORS This Buyer's Guide has tons of information. So much, in"
1998:MAG ") who also yells a lot (the Coens are nothing if not fond of apoplectic power mongers). When this other Lebowski, the "" big "" Lebowski, discovers that his young porno-doll wife has been abducted , he enlists the Dude to deliver a million dollars to the kidnappers. Photograph LOSERS' LANE: Bridges, Goodman, and Steve Buscemi get bowled over // Virtuallyevery Coen film has been structured as some sort of convoluted funhouse ride, and The Big Lebowski, with its hippie-out-of-time protagonist, wants to be a byzantine trip movie, an underworld-scuzz version of Alice in Wonderland."
1994:NEWS "? I only know because I looked at my voter's guide, but it is too many. Too many by far! # Initiatives were supposed to give the people a last resort if the Legislature fails to act. It has become a game and a big business, with Californians the losers. # I will vote against every initiative on this year's ballot. Iwish everyone else would too. # Then, let's see a change in the state Constitution that raises the threshold. How about requiring both houses of the Legislature to have had a bill before them with the"
1995:NEWS "time acting as a traveling salesman, "" says analyst Ed Hudgins of the libertarian CATO Institute. # And Rep. Dick Chrysler, R-Mich., who heads the House task force aiming to dissolve Commerce, says he has a problem with Brown's foreign trips: '' It's government picking winners and losers. The government should not be in that business. '' # More, somecritics say his trips wrap ribbons around already-cooked business deals that sometimes benefit political allies and would succeed with or without the imprimatur of his official status. # Brown simply smiles about the criticism of his finances, his"
1999:MAG "got Muhammad Ali's support. That's even better than Russ Feingold's! # BILL BRADLEY Catching up in polls and funds to front-running Gore. Still neck-and-neck in charisma # ROSEANNE Despite poor ratings, her show gets renewed. Oh, goody. More shots of her butt tattoo # &; LOSERS # BORIS YELTSIN In a step toward impeachment, parliament votes to keep prosecutor.Ai n't democracy fun? # THE SEVEN SISTERS Elite cadre of schools down to six as Radcliffe agrees to merge fully into Harvard # N.R.A. Cutting back to "" essential "" events in upcoming Denver conference. Like"
1992:MAG "often matched the President's blueprint. The National Science Foundation emerged as a key winner, with an inflation-adjusted R &D; in-crease of 11.9 percent. (The administration had sought an even heftier hike, but lawmakers shifted some proposed R &D; funds to NSF education activities.) # Even many '' losers '' showed a modest increase. Amid criticism over several space agency programs, includingdevelopment of new weather satellites and Space Station Freedom, NASA's spending limit rose to $8.6 billion - 0.9 percent beyond inflation, but nearly 11 percent less than Bush had proposed. # Adjusting for inflation, Congress gave"
1994:FIC "about Berkeley in 1965 and the civil rights movement and a dozen different safe houses and as many identities and the long tired time in the' 80s when no cause seemed any better than any other cause, but one way or another they had taken a hand in almost anything that helped thelosers of the world, despite -- or maybe because of -- Jake's employment.At least no kids to put into the equation now; Ellen grown and gone, and Tom.... # "" What do you have in mind? "" she asks. # "" I do n't"
1991:MAG "no means flattering portrait of the moonstruck Duke of Windsor, the man who gave up his throne for a career as the husband of American-born Wallis Simpson. # A DANGEROUS WOMAN by Mary McGarry Morris (Viking; $19.95). This searching novel about a woman who is one of life'slosers creates a character who is crazy enough to be interesting and sane enough to describeher own incompetence. # I AM A TEACHER: A TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S TEACHERS by David Marshall Marquis and Robin Sachs (Simon &; Schuster; $29.95). In this chronicle of the nation's best teachers"
1990:MAG "history remains unpredictable, after all. That, after fifty years, which is a fairly long time, the British and the Russian and the American empires have lost most of the fruits of their victory in World War 11 is not arguable. At the same time Germany and Japan, the losers of World War Il, are not the superpowers of the world. They havenot yet been willing to translate their economic prestige into political and military power? more precisely, into that willingness to use force that is as much a component of power as is prestige. That willingness, in"
1999:MAG "Long-Term Capital Management and to IMF bailouts around the world -- has shown that altruism, when yoked to rigorous analysis, can work. MICHAEL COLLINS Port Jefferson, N.Y. 360801 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # LAURYN HILL Nabs five Grammys, including best album and new artist. Alas, just beaten out for best polka CD # MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Given two minutes on lowbrow Italian TV show, he spouts forth on politics for 15. And gets paid # CHARLES BRONSON Actor, left $300,000"
1991:MAG "rock &; roll great dies in cruel ignominy in Haley's Comet,' a two-bit punk robs stores and whores around without apology in Guilty Man,' and young lovers say and do the wrong things over and over again. Yet like Tom Waits's moonlit world of stew bums and flophouse losers, Blue Blvd glows with a pale fire stoked by the rootsy dynamics of Alvin's arrangements and the tender mercy at the heart of his pithy, understated writing. Alvin does not use the word abortion in Plastic Rose,' and he takes no stand on it either way, but he"
1990:NF "gains still and further deepen the gap between the sides. Secondly, the permanent polarization of chances brought about by the monopoly (that is, by the constraints imposed on competition) tends to lead in the long run to the differential treatment of winners and losers. Sooner or later winners and losers solidify' into permanent' categories. The winners blame the failure of the loserson the latter's inherent inferiority. The losers are declared responsible for their own misfortune. They are described as inept or wicked, fickle or depraved, improvident or morally contemptible: in short, lacking in the"
1999:MAG gets ring after long Boston drought. Pr-ou-ou-d to be a Yankee # ERICH VON DANIKEN Report: UFO author to tout shares for mystery theme park. Do they have IPOs on Mars? # DRINKERS Evidence shows a drink during heart attack can help. Ask ambulance to swing by tavern # &;LOSERS # JESSE HELMS Never fails to amaze: orders Congresswomen out after they fight forantidiscrimination treaty # GEORGE W. BUSH Skips another N.H. debate with rivals. Message: I do n't care. Wo n't exactly woo Granite State # FALUN GONG Beijing intensifies crackdown on followers of spiritual exercise group. Hey
1998:MAG "sell or not. Take another look, and be ready to accept that you might have missed something the first time. That's what Tisch did. Last quarter Loews "" reduced its exposure "" to the stuff that produced the massive losses. Now is a good time to look at your losers. If you wouldn't buy them at this price, consider selling to lockin a tax savings before year's end. # -- Contrary investing is an art. Big money can be made betting against the herd. But the herd often gathers considerable momentum. The art is in knowing"
1994:NF "John Merriman of the Coast Guard. Further, John Walsh served as a cocoach of the Olympic boxing team along with John Mendonca.102 Ernie Charboneau and Steve Gremban were both eliminated in their first tryout bouts when they sustained cuts over their eyes, and under AAU rules governing the tryouts they were declared losers by technical knockout. Don Dickinson suffered the same fate in his first encounter.Herb Carlson, after winning his first bout by a knockout, lost by a decision in his second. Cal Vernon was outpointed in his first contest and Art Saey, representing the NCAA in the heavyweight division,"
1999:FIC "them on stage in Wagnerian operas.) Look at Finland, Russia, Ireland, Iceland, Arabia -- even China or India. The urge to write and read High Fantasy seems to be fairly universal. Next comes the practice writing. I started on contemporary novels -- HIGH HUNT and THE LOSERS. (The publication date of THE LOSERS is June 1992, but I wroteit back in the 1970s. It's not strictly speaking a novel, but rather is an allegory, the one-eyed Indian is God, and Jake Flood is the Devil. Notice that I wrote it before we"
1999:MAG "the people of New York, renowned for their tough, in-your-face savvy. They're not like those patsies in New Zealand, to whom Mrs. Clinton revealed, concerning the distinctive spelling of her first name, that she had been named after Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest. Those schmucko losers Down Under lapped it up, at least until the great man pointed out thathe had n't conquered Everest until 1953: Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and an unlikely inspiration for young parents in a Chicago suburb. If she tries that"
1996:MAG "WINNERS # JEAN CHRETIEN Tail wags dog: Canadian PM persuades Clinton to join risky multinational Zaire relief effort # ARMY FOOTBALL West Point's once-defeated Cadets have posted their best record in nearly 50 years # BOEING Lands a big deal. Air Force picks firm to build new $1.1 billion laser-attack warplanes # LOSERS # BILL CLINTON Surprise: with the election over, President okays longer Bosnia stayfor U.S. troops # SERGEANT LOREN TAYLOR Five months behind bars and a bad-conduct discharge for first catch in Army sex scandal # REPRESENTATIVE BOB DORNAN G.O.P. firebrand "" B-1 Bob "" gets blitzed by Dem Latina foe in still"
1997:MAG "instead of the usual 20. The brand's market share nearly doubled in one year, and Philip Morris' overall sales in Australia came roaring back. // THE BIBLE EFFECT // Thus did Bible establish himself as a brand builder in the classic Philip Morris tradition ('' Cost cutting is for losers, '' the die-hard tobacco honchos say). Senior management plucked him from DownUnder and promoted him to executive vice president and then president of Philip Morris' entire international tobacco operations. He proved a shrewd and tireless strategist, selecting the most promising emerging markets and working with foreign ministers to"
1999:MAG "life of incomparable scientific achievement, Einstein often said, "" God does not play dice with the universe. "" # -- Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State 362495 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # BILL BRADLEY Prez wannabe rises in polls. But soon, Mr.Thoughtful, you'll need more specifics, fewer air balls # KEIKO Free Willy whale readies to return to the wild. Downside: no more complementary plankton # DONALD TRUMP High-haired huckster pens book, may try for"
1990:MAG "Phoenix-based American Continental Corp., parent of the now bankrupt Lincoln Savings &; Loan. The Arizona Democrat strongly denies any wrongdoing, saying he merely went to bat for a constituent and major employer in his state. THE SINNERS # Representative Bob Stump (R, Ariz.) leads our list of legislative losers. A 14-year House veteran from outlying Phoenix, Stump, 63, sided withMONEY subscribers on only three out of a possible 13 votes. Originally a Democrat, Stump switched allegiances in 1982. Last year, he voted the Republican line 96% of the time. Stump is considered to be"
1996:NEWS "escaping life, about checking out of history into a prehistoric year of 13 lucky moons. # Mohegan Sun is perhaps most fully understood as a symbol of American life in the post-cold-war era. In place of the East-West polarity, we're faced with a vast and growing gulf between winners andlosers. Mohegan Sun defends the border between them by denying with great artistry that itexists. It's a big, glamorous wheel of fortune designed to suggest that the difference between winning and losing is just a matter of chance. # Map of Connecticut highlighting Mohegan Sun Casino. (pg."
1998:MAG "of Deana's daring, of her composing gifts and rangy taste: country, rock, power pop. In a sly, dry, sweetly froggy voice that weirdly suggests young Bobby of King of the Hill, Carter draws four-minute portraits of unfulfilled wives (Absence of the Heart), vengeful losers with an urge to arson (Dickson County), abandoned kids whose saving graceis not knowing when to quit (Angels Working Overtime). Twelve songs of hurt without despair are capped by Fred's title song, a hymn to hope despite all. Hope on, folks. In Deana"
1994:FIC "What else could they do? # They'd have a great time. He'd take them on tour, his own team, and they'd play everyone. The tragic 2032 Eagles, whose cells were all scraped from the site of the sub-orbital crash. The awful 1998 Florida Marlins, losers of 136 games in a single season. The 2129 Slashers, with the robotthird baseman. All of them, every one. # Some day, thought Curran, they might even meet the 1950's New York Giants. And, come to think of it, Sal Maglie might conceivably"
1998:FIC "It was a good thing his mother had n't heard that. He'd have been grounded for life. In Sunday school, Judd copped an attitude. He wore clothes his parents only barely approved of, and he stayed as far away as possible from the '' good '' kids. What losers! They never had any, fun. Judd didn't smile, didn'tcarry a Bible, did n't look at the teacher, did n't say anything. When the teacher asked his opinion of something, he shrugged. He wanted everyone to know he was there only because he had"
1990:NF "utmost seriousness. Moreover, it is a profoundly purposive medium, with well-defined goals that specify the means of thei attainment. A game makes change happen within itself, often by positing an initial condition (for example , sets of opponents) that is to be turned into another (winners and losers). Therefore, built into the idea of game' are contrasting or contradictorystates of existence, which must be resolved through its action. The game form also depends upon predictability, by limiting possible outcomes, and by specifying the causal scheme to attain these. As well, the game"
1997:MAG "BOB DOLE Banker-to-Newt shames Trent Lott into being statesmanlike over chemical-weapons treaty # DALAI LAMA Tibetan saviour gets unofficial "" Hello, Dalai "" from Clinton, boosting his cause and tweaking China # JUDGE RICHARD MATSCH He's no Ito. No-nonsense Oklahoma bomb-trial judge shields jurors and gets show on the road # LOSERS # FUZZY ZOELLER Yeah, Tiger accepted his apology, but even so, Fuzzywas n't funny was he? # ALEXIS HERMAN G.O.P. continues strike against Herman nommination to thumb nose at Big Labor and Big Bill # 20TH CENTURY FOX Titanic sinking? Rumor has it movie behemothwo n't make port for"
1991:NEWS "Europe. In its place there could, with any luck, emerge a culture that recognizes the need to achieve social order by offering incentives, not by handing down instructions. The pioneer of that philosophy was America . If its people go the other way, they won't be the only losers. 649984 # '' Surprising best sellers often provide publishing's sweetest stories, ''began a story that appeared in USA Today on Tuesday about the nonfiction paperback hit of the summer, "" The Education of Little Tree. "" # First published in 1976 by Delacorte Press and reprinted in 1986 by"
1994:MAG 350736 WINNERS # QUAKER OATS # Frigid weather results in huge sales rise # VICTOR CHERNOMYRDIN # Russian Prime Minister in the ascendant as reformers bow out # MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA # Japanese PM averts government collapse with reform deal # LOSERS # MICHAEL JACKSON # Multimillion-dollar settlement will cost him credibility as well # RANDALL TERRY# Court's RICO decision may foil tactics of antiabortion leader # BOB PACKWOOD # Judge orders him to hand those diaries over to Senate
1997:NEWS "a one-point lead, only to leave just enough time at the end for the Vikings to mow downfield and win? Whatever heart the Bears showed was left in a million pieces on, yep, Chicago Avenue, leaving us to ponder the guttural truth about the Wannstedt Bears: They are habitual losers. # Fortunately, some players aren't delighted with the concept. Each week, a piece of them is dying. "" This is right on top of the frustration scale, "" linebacker Barry Minter said. "" We get so close, then we let it go. We had so"
1990:MAG "the only one. Of those polled for NEWSWEEK, more than half know someone who has been laid off or fired recently -- and l 20 percent believe that they could be next (page 46). But it's possible to eliminate some of the uncertainty. The business cycle creates both losers and winners, and the more you know about how recessions work, I theeasier it is to figure out whether your I company is in trouble or not -- and whether or not your own job is safe. A guide to calculating the odds: # One way to gauge your job"
1993:FIC "like a rejected seminarian from the fifties. Brother S remembered how ten years earlier he'd had to hitch rides and walk miles through sagebrush and greasewood to reach the hermitage. He also knew how Brother Luke had walked those last miles through a hailstorm. Yet St. Ed had to fetch these losers, who wouldn't have found their way without him. Amherst had delicate handsthat seemed to collapse at the wrists when he picked up a shovel at St. Ed's orders to dig a hole for a new, larger latrine fashioned with a row of seats. Berkeley almost set fire to"
1996:MAG "before the first votes were counted. Perhaps a more accurate cover would have been a single image of Clinton with the headline OUR CHOICE. TIMOTHY L. ROPER Bethesda, Maryland 356012 WINNERS &; LOSERS # THE VETERANS DAY WEEK # WINNERS # JEAN CHRETIEN Tail wags dog: CanadianPM persuades Clinton to join risky multinational Zaire relief effort # ARMY FOOTBALL West Point's once-defeated Cadets have posted their best record in nearly 50 years # BOEING Lands a big deal. Air Force picks firm to build"
1996:NF ", who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at weddings. I could n't help myself. In a dramatic gesture, I bolted the door and threw my body across it to prevent her exit . She understood. // Since then, I've had some winners and some losers. (I had one who would have borrowed my eyeballs if they had fitinto a cup and survived the trip across the lawn.) If I were to make a composite of the perfect neighbor, I'd have to list a good neighbor as one who: // 1. Does"
1999:MAG "his critically acclaimed Cradle Will Rock. "" There's this great mixture of art and prostitution. "" Photograph Photograph // What distinguished this year's festival was the vast disparity between the two. For 12 days, attendees were subjected either to austere art tales of murder, incest, and no-good losers, or to desperate-sounding cell-phone conversations and meetings during which anything and everything was forsale. Everything, that is, except the best films in the competition, almost all of which were already owned by distributors, rendering the Croisette a pretty dull bordello for business. Sony made John Sayles'"
1994:MAG "you wonder what he'd write the first time he saw a giraffe. # When the final match is played this Sunday, the Rose Bowl will be full of enthusiasts even if, as expected, fewer than 3% of the nation's TV sets are tuned in. When the victors and losers jet home next week to their respective adulation and opprobrium, America will be leftwith baseball, football training camps, a little tennis, a smattering of golf -- and a void. For those who gave it a chance, the World Cup turned out to be a refreshing breather from the"
1991:NEWS "the right paperwork and learned the secret American handshake from the INS. Unofficially speaking, scum who target people who ca n't defend themselves incite me to creative outrage. By the time I had the last of them webbed to the side of their slave container in the shape of the word ''LOSERS '' I'd been five minutes late to the faculty meeting already. # Butthat's not the kind of thing you can use as an excuse. # "" The dog ate my homework, "" I said instead. # Coach Kyle shook his head, grinning, and we stopped outside"
1993:FIC ". Her troubles were over. Maybe this sad life had earned her another as a rich, skinny Beverly Hills beauty. Sure, he thought, like reincarnation. As far as he was concerned, that was the one good thing about death: no one really knew who the winners and losers were on the other side. It was a hell of a lot better notknowing. While more photographs were taken of both the body and the empty grave, and Officer Stafford started looking for evidence in the grave itself, the investigator from the district at-torney's office arrived, eyes squinting"
1992:MAG "government an activist agent in restoring the country's economic base. After years of futile debate about the decline of manufacturing, a Clinton administration would confront the reality directly with a genuine industrial policy intended to regain the nation's competitive edge. # I don't believe in government picking winners and losers,' Clinton told the Economic Club of Detroit, but a government should dowhat it takes to help American business and American workers become winners. It is n't any accident that twenty-eight percent of the Japanese work force and thirty-two percent of the German work force are in manufacturing and we are"
1998:MAG "the claims they make about their credentials. Without this warning, some people would brazenly continue the interview process with little concern for accuracy. STANLEY HERZ Somers, N.Y. 358104 WINNERS &; LOSERS COMEBACKS AND COMEUPPANCES # WINNERS # MICHAEL TIGAR The anti-Cochran. Takes Nichols jury bythe tail. Defense lawyers do n't have to be sleazy # STEVE JOBS Apple posts a profit. Maybe the better product is n't rotten after all. And, Steve, bag the beard # LITTLE MERMAID Topless"
1994:FIC "Smith, Drum holding his smile, the flattened great bags under his eyes from rough living and failure. He spoke often of "" love "" and "" quest. "" He prefaced many things he said with "" I am a Christian, '' sadly, as if he were in some dreadful losers' club. # Paul Smith looked at the table in front of him andhad a brief collapse. # "" I'm sorry. "" He put his hands down flat. There seemed to be a whole bleak country in front of his eyes, the ten hills of his fingers on"
1994:NEWS ". That would be crucial to the game's stability, the only deterrent to utter chaos. But it is also highly unlikely, and if you're like me, you do n't care a lick for either side now. It is time for judgment day. # I hope the small-market losers go completely out of business. They're the ones who created this mess withtheir incessant whining; now they can go down in a pile of manure. Either that or they do survive, even with no players, and then we can all laugh at their hollow threats of bankruptcy."
1997:MAG "they arrive in heaven, while only 6% believe good deeds alone will get them there. Welcome to the new Dark Ages! MARC VISCHER Billings, Montana # PREACHING HEAVEN 356610 WINNERS &; LOSERS # IMAGE IS EVERYTHING # WINNERS # MADELEINE ALBRIGHT She's really in the majorsnow. So what if she bounced the ball? George Bush hit the dirt too. # WHITE HOUSE EASTER-EGG ROLL Phew! Some broken eggs but no jokes about Chinese egg rolls and unsavory Asian connections. #"
1993:MAG "earn money and buy American products. Now, does that mean there will be no job displacement? Of course not. There will be some job displacement, but there is job displacement every day in America and has been from the dawn of time. What we want is more winners thanlosers. The question in all these tough choices should be, Will we generate morejobs and higher income, net? Because if we close all the borders tomorrow, we'd still have economic dislocation because we live in dynamic times. The average 18-year-old worker will change work eight times a lifetime"
1994:MAG 350892 WINNERS # DAVID LETTERMAN'S MOM # Her reports from Lillehammer outclass Connie Chung's # INT'L OLYMPIC COMMITTEE # Harding's wobbles dispel the specter of a gold-medaled felon # SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS # Ski-masked rebel forces Mexican gov't to the negotiating table # LOSERS # BILL GATES # Microsoft's cyberspace monopoly finally halted by a patent suit # TIMBER CUTTERS # White House proposes tougher logging rules to save spotted owl # MARTHA RAYE # Judge tosses out her suit against Bette Midler's For the Boys
1993:MAG "350432 WINNERS # SNOOP DOGGY DOGG # Rapper's debut album is a hit. Possibly that murder charge helped? # AMERICAN STRIKERS # Downtrodden flight attendants win arbitration and respect # BARRY DILLER # Court tells QVC '' be our guest '' in Paramount takeover # LOSERS# DALLAS COWBOY LEON LETT # Show-off goat of Super Bowl boots fumble and handsMiami game # BOB DOLE # After creating standoff over popular Brady bill, he backs down # IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE FANS # A ban on unauthorized airings means just three this year"
1995:NEWS "Petersburg's $ 138 million ThunderDome stood silent testament to the hard-learned lesson that all the pitching, hand-squeezing and shoulder-rubbing in the world wo n't bring a major-league baseball team to town. # The only crowd in Ferg 's toted notebooks and television cameras. They were the reporters assigned to cover the losers in Florida that day, even though the scorebooks show the Los Angeles Dodgers fell6-3 to the Marlins. "" That could have been the greatest day of my life, "" said Ferguson, a baseball-loving St. Petersburg schoolteacher who on a gamble converted a gas station into the sports bar four years"
1999:FIC "Saturday night. "" No, I do n't think so. I've got plans. "" "" Hanging out with the retards? "" Liz asked. "" My friends are my business. "" # "" Someday you'll realize you're one of us, '' Justin said. '' Those losers you hang around with just pull you down. Maybe it's about time youlive up to your potential. "" # I had heard this lecture before from my mother. She thought Lew and Screwy were a disease, infecting me with terminal normality. Liz stepped in front of me and"
1998:MAG "big winners this year. MATT DAMON and BEN AFFLECK brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast to Titanic director Jim Cameron's '' King of the World '' shtick. There werelosers too, of course. Poor Joan Rivers, broadcasting live, didn't recognizeRosa Parks, Tyra Banks or Mercedes McCambridge and asked five-time nominee, one-time winner Robert Duvall if he'd ever been nominated before. Just plain E! mbarrassing. # IT'S THE FROCKSCARS! # The rush"
1991:MAG "We'd rather have the guaranteed bid, but I can see why it had to be done, with the increasing number of conferences. This was the best option. "" // To the NCAA's credit, it has ensured that the format won't hurt the schools financially. The three losers in the play-in games will receive what they would have gotten had they lost inthe first round of the NCAA tournament. However, that ca n't completely compensate for having to win an extra game to reach the tournament. Said Fordham coach Nick Macarchuk after his team had won the Patriot title"
1995:NEWS "in Boston do in fact rapidly narrow the achievement gap, even after taking account of the characteristics of the students attending the charters. Charters' promise. The Boston Foundation study compares the growth in academic achievement of students who won charter school lotteries and enrolled in charter schools with that of lottery losers who had to remain in traditional public schools in Boston. The results suggest thatthe freedom conferred on charters to hire teachers and principals and to shape school culture made a huge difference in subsequent student performance. The students stuck in traditional public schools did only marginally better than their peers, but"
1995:MAG "WINNERS # IMELDA MARCOS A "" shoe-in, "" she stands to gain a seat in the Philippine House # JOHN KASICH House budget chairman backs up G.O.P. rhetoric with no-nonsense plan # THE RED ARMY Fifty years and 27 million lives after the defeat of Hitler, the West says '' Thanks '' #LOSERS # BONGBONG MARCOS Imelda's son trails badly in his bid for a seat inthe Senate # LANE KIRKLAND Eleven powerful AFL-CIO unions tell their chief to pack his bags # THE N.R.A. Its anti-G-man hate speech hits unexpected target: ex-President Bush, who resigns"
1993:MAG "since the start of the 1980s -- market share gains by Japanese companies, market share losses by American companies -- will likely continue in the 1990s. "" Whenever American firms started to show weakness, the report said , they usually went on to collapse. '' The U.S. market is hard onlosers. Companies that have reached the limits of growth rarely have a chance to comeback. "" Large Japanese firms, in contrast, simply did not go bankrupt, and were able to buffer losses in one division with earnings from another. The Nomura report -- which was intended for domestic Japanese"
1998:MAG "who took Viagra in clinical trials experienced a blinding headache. I've already given it a name: Vigraine. DENNIS EISEN Rockville, Md. # VICTIMS OF THE AFFAIR 358807 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # PHIL KNIGHT Nike CEO will end child labor and improve factories abroad. Go, Phil -- now hike that minimum wage! # LARRY BIRD Coaching honors, play-off wins -- does the dream season go on or end with Jordan's wake-up call? # LARRY KING CNN schmooze artist"
1998:NEWS ", that some markets may already be dangerously overvalued. For another, though most experts are increasingly confident that the new European Central Bank will establish stability and credibility for the euro, there is still ample room for problems. And even if the euro proceeds according to plan, it will create losers as well as winners. # Even so, European economic prospects are better thanthey have been in years. Total economic growth should reach 3 percent this year, possibly outpacing growth in the United States. Already, annual growth rates for Portugal, Spain and Finland are rising by about 4"
1990:MAG "a small commotion in the back and shouts, "" There he is! "" This is election night here, and the "" he "" is Alvaro Arzu, presidential candidate for the National Advancement Party. Arzu squeezes his way up to the microphone to thunderous cheers. # And these are the losers. In something of an upset, Arzu came in a distant third behind JorgeCarpio of the National Center Union and Jorge Serrano of the Solidarity Action Movement, and is thus excluded from the run-off election between the top two contenders. When one of these two men is sworn in on January"
1998:MAG """ Rosa Parks would still be in the back of the bus. "" # And beck, if I did n't feel anger, you could come over to my place, eat all my food, and pelt me with the empty cans -- without consequence. And slowly, evolution would erase losers like me, as jerks like you would flourish. The world would become onebig stag party (with real stags). # The key, therefore, is not to eliminate anger, but to make it work for you. # "" The truly cool dude is one who takes each"
1994:MAG ", and at the same time to eliminate the use of dioxin-producing chlorine bleaches. Manufacturers that once claimed recycled paper was only good for low-grade paper products now are making high-grade magazine stock at least partially from recycled fibers . Such developments have set off a technology race that could help determine winners and losers in the paper industry in the next decade. Over time, the industry maymove away from the forested areas where it is centered to the outskirts of large cities, where its major future resource -- discarded paper -- and its markets lie. The steel industry is undergoing a similar transformation."
1998:MAG "Clinton out of free fall and cauterize his wound # RALPH ACAMPORA Prudential's bear looks good now, as pressure mounts on Goldman's Abby ("" Bull "") Cohen # CYNTHIA COOPER It's a repeat MVP , playoff MVP and championship ring for the WNBA's first great star # &; LOSERS # AL GORE More teens know Leonardo than him, poll says. Will thisstill be true when he's President? # PEANUTS Planes to have nut-free zones to protect the allergic. Like the rest of airline food was so benign # PAUL WIGGINS Steeler tackle gets suspended for using the same"
1993:NEWS "it is well-managed, technically expert, out of the limelight, and small. With a budget mostly free of political wrangling, the agency has effectively promoted critical new technologies that companies had n't dared to fund. # Thus, ARPA belies the old argument that government can't pick winners and losers. '' In technology, we are already making choices, '' says Dan Burton, executive vice president of the private-sector Council on Competitiveness. "" So let's just review our priorities. "" # What's unknown is whether such small-time experiments will work in the big time. Complaints have cropped"
1999:NF "with this, one must always be wary of one's counterparts, to assume that they are involved with you only for what they can get out of the situation. // Correspondingly, life in public often features an intense competition for scarce social goods in which '' winners '' totally dominate ''losers '' and in which losing can be a fate worse than death. So onemust be on one's guard constantly. One is not always able to trust others fully, in part because so much is at stake socially, but also because everyone else is understood to be so deprived."
1995:MAG "353610 Winners # JIM LOVELL Forgotten after Apollo 13, Hanks-portrayed astronaut is now lionized by hit movie # THE UNABOMBER Lonely guy with too much time on his hands gets a pen pal # OUR SONS Obscure Julie Andrews TV movie is a sudden video hit-thanks to co-star Hugh Grant # Losers # JERRY GARCIA The Grateful Dead tour hell-a week of ticket riots, overdoses andcollapsing porches # WOODY ALLEN His appeal of pro-Mia custody decision is laughed out of court # BENETTON Its shock-value ads get a shock of their own: Germany bans them for exploiting suffering"
1993:FIC ". With a hammer. "" "" 1 low horrible, "" Molly said. Fred nodded. The man had been horrible also, but maybe 1 as horrible as his death. "" He was pathetic, "" Fred said. '' His re smelled bad. He looked like one of those losers who can't? p a friend, can't finish anything, be anybody. He was doing pornography. As well as cocaine. I hate bringing you this, Molly, it there you are. Probably it's a simple thing; maybe someone discovered that he had Clay's money"
1999:FIC ", Mr. Rope, collars Ray, Dave, and Chase. Mr. Rope: Move it, boys. My office. You know the way. Narrator 2: Meanwhile on the patio, Nicole and the rest of the committee are still recovering from the flying-tire attack. Alicia: Headline: Losers Attempt Prank. Hundreds Unimpressed. Dee: Nicole, isn't Chase Hammond afriend of yours? Nicole: Chase Hammond is a neighbor. That's all. Narrator 1: Meanwhile, at the table of girls in black... Liz: What a drag, Dulcie. Your"
1993:NEWS "the United States to lose its advantage in the world economy. Multinational firms, he argues, are gaining power without being accountable to governments or taking account of their impact on peoples and nations. # In a section on regional impacts, Kennedy considers which peoples are likely to be winners and losers, and why. His analysis is uneven, but still remarkable in its considerationof how cultural as well as politico-economic factors interact with these forces. # Kennedy does not analyze potential solutions, but he points to three steps fundamental to an effective global response: reeducating people to understand why changes"
1999:MAG "$100,000 in foundation money and 1,000 volunteers worldwide who hunt down books, type or scan them in and proofread, he has assembled a library of 2,250 entries. Go to 362896 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # ROGER CLEMENS Sorry, Beantown. Rocket man gets ring after longBoston drought. Pr-ou-ou-d to be a Yankee # ERICH VON DANIKEN Report: UFO author to tout shares for mystery theme park. Do they have IPOs on Mars? # DRINKERS Evidence shows a drink during heart attack"
1990:NF "chances. Resources would cluster and tend to become ever more abundant on one side of the relationship, while becoming increasingly scarce on the other. More often than not, such a polarization of resources would give the winning side the ability to dictate the rules of all further interaction and leave the losers in no position to contest the rules. Gains in such a case would betransformed into a monopoly; monopoly, in its turn, would allow the winning side to dictate the conditions of further competition (for example, to fix the prices of the otherwise unavailable goods), and so"
1990:MAG "furious because Turner's CNN broadcast an early National Park Service estimate of 60,000 supporters at the recent Washington rally, rather than the 500,000 claimed by pro-lifers. And, accepting an award as Humanist of the Year at a convention in Orlando, Turner, who has called Christianity a '' religion for losers, '' had some harsh words for his own upbringing, saying '' Religion waspounded into us so much that I was saved seven or eight times. "" 340760 THE REACH-OUT ALBANIA PLAN"
1997:NEWS "period for assessing a stock's performance was lengthened to six months from one, and the minimum stock price raised to $2. # Mr. Steinberg went on to have some big winners, like Dell Computer; some big losers, like Software Toolworks, and some big winners that ultimately turned intolosers, like Clearly Canadian, a little beverage company whose stock went from $7.50 to$25 in a year, and then plunged into the pennies. # In 15 tries, Mr. Steinberg won 6 times, which remains a Journal record. He also had some of the worst performers in the history"
1999:FIC "if I do n't write, or if I start a book that flops, it is n't the same as losing twenty grand in Vegas. "" # "" I do n't go to Vegas. I do n't go to race tracks, either. The crowds at both places, so many losers under one roof, make me sadder than hell. But I'll tell yousomething you might think crazy A good loss every now and then is n't such a terrible thing. Take my word for it. I've had some high-voltage jolts in this business. But a big loss can"
1999:FIC "I ask Silas. I learned from Louis today that the snake has gotten loose. # "" No. "" Silas's blond eyebrows, just visible below the stocking cap, are faint brushstrokes; his eyes are smoky-blue faraway things. '' He got tired of hanging out with a bunch of losers. '' # '' Hey, '' Dennis says, sharply. # Silas edgesbackward on his bike. It's an old one-speed, a yard-saler-just a frame and two fat tires, though the handlebars are bent upward in a funky way. The bike is way too small for him,"
1990:MAG "find what it might mean to bring his message to the largest possible audience. Like Nebraska, Born in the U.S.A. was about people who come to realize that life turns out harder, more hurtful, more closefisted than they might have expected. But in contrast to Nebraska' s killers and losers, Born in the U.S.A.' s characters hold back the night as bestthey can, whether it's by singing, laughing, dancing, yearning, reminiscing or entering into desperate love affairs. There was something celebratory about how these people face their hardships. It's as if Springsteen"
1993:FIC "quiet footsteps moving past her room toward the stairs. | THE TRACK, AT DAWN. IT WAS A DIFFERENT WORLD FROM THE ONE KELSEY had expected. Racing to her meant more than speed. It meant gambling and gamblers, fat cigars and bad suits, the smell of stale beer and losers' sweat. The drunken groom Gabe had fired the day before fit her imageof the world she'd imagined much more cozily than the tranquil, somehow mystical reality of the dawn horse. The track was cloaked in mist when she arrived with Naomi. The horses had left even earlier,"
1993:NEWS "trivia such as Summer's duet with Barbra Streisand ("" No More Tears ""), a cover of "" Do n't Cry for Me, Argentina "" and her born-again Christian comeback attempts. Yuck. # "" ABBA Gold: The Greatest Hits '' does better, with only one or two losers among the 19 candy-coated tracks. In fact, there are probably more hooks onthis album than every disc I've heard in the' 90s combined. # In some ways, the Swedish quartet's futuristic Phil Spector wall of sound was as scary as its impossibly blond manes and ultra-high cheekbones"
1997:NEWS "# As customer volume warrants, Mr. Parkinson said, Peapod will almost certainly move toward a warehouse-distribution system in tandem with its retailers. "" But you need volume in order to justify warehouses, "" Mr. Parkinson said . # Whichever approach to on-line shopping wins, many analysts say that the ultimate losers could be supermarket companies, unless they, too, adapt to the electronic future. For grocers, it is a question of timing -- when to begin turning checkout line customers into on-line subscribers. # "" At some point, we'll have to get into it, "" said Robert S."
1998:NEWS "non-conference games. Although Kansas State was next in line for the Robinson game had Nebraska turned it down, Snyder passed on games that would have forced his team to pack a bag. # The strategy, he said, has worked to build Kansas State from one of college football's biggestlosers to a preseason No. 6 this year. But there is a change in theschedule that also could help Kansas State. # Instead of filling up on cupcakes immediately before taking on the Cornhuskers, Kansas State will not face Nebraska until Nov. 14 when the Wildcats will have faced competition closer to"
1990:NF "polarization of chances brought about by the monopoly (that is, by the constraints imposed on competition) tends to lead in the long run to the differential treatment of winners and losers. Sooner or later winners and losers solidify' into permanent' categories. The winners blame the failure of the losers on the latter's inherent inferiority. The losers are declared responsible for their ownmisfortune. They are described as inept or wicked, fickle or depraved, improvident or morally contemptible: in short, lacking in the qualities seen as a necessary condition of competitive success, which also happen to be"
1999:MAG "He's seen things go up, he's seen things go down. "" 361696 When the end of the most lopsided 78-day war in history finally came, the champagne was for the losers. In Belgrade last Wednesday night, thousands of young Serbs unburdened themselves in thecity's Republic Square, dangling out the windows of their cars, blaring the horns and chanting "" Serbia! Serbia! "" They lit red magnesium flares and launched fireworks into the night sky. "" I feel"
1997:NEWS "of concerns over the effect of publicity on short-term stock prices. The time period for assessing a stock's performance was lengthened to six months from one, and the minimum stock price raised to $2. # Mr. Steinberg went on to have some big winners, like Dell Computer; some biglosers, like Software Toolworks, and some big winners that ultimately turned into losers,like Clearly Canadian, a little beverage company whose stock went from $7.50 to $25 in a year, and then plunged into the pennies. # In 15 tries, Mr. Steinberg won 6 times, which remains a"
1998:MAG "sex lives. If only perfect Americans who have never lied should be elected, then 99% of the politicians in office should resign at once. CAROLINE KIM Cleveland, Texas 359499 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # JOE LIEBERMAN Senate pal hammers Prez, but this Tough Love mayget Clinton out of free fall and cauterize his wound # RALPH ACAMPORA Prudential's bear looks good now, as pressure mounts on Goldman's Abby ("" Bull "") Cohen # CYNTHIA COOPER It's a repeat"
1999:FIC "establish myself. I agreed. I would have agreed to anything he suggested. That night Peter, Millicent, and I smoked our pipe while the giants smoked theirs in the distance. We played a game of cards in which the winner of each hand was allowed to remove some of the losers' clothes. We undressed each other and then tumbled onto a rug which coveredthe courtyard's flags, the figures on the scattered playing cards our audience. 3110 The road is narrow"
1994:MAG "True, several profitable state enterprises, such as Shanghai Petrochemical, have gone public in both Hong Kong and the U.S. But rather than close down the clunkers, the government keeps lending them money, which fans inflation and prevents meaningful reforms of the financial system. Chinese leaders talk about letting the losers go bankrupt or cutting off their access to scarce raw materials. But there'sno sign of action. The senior citizens in charge -- the average age of the Politburo is 64 -- are evidently paralyzed by fears of causing mass unemployment. In the meantime, some enterprising Overseas Chinese are doing"
1997:NF "although revenues have been increasing also. US WEST's cellular subsidiary had a cash flow margin of 28% for 1994, which is far below the overall cash flow margin of 42% for US WEST as a whole. What all this means is that many of US WEST's ventures are either outright losers or, at best, drains on the overall profitability of the company. INFRASTRUCTUREINVESTMENT A few years ago, studies mostly financed by the Baby Bells concluded that the telecommunication infrastructure in the United States had fallen behind other industrialized countries. Anyone who has visited other countries knows that we in the"
1998:MAG "Faircloth lose, in-law Boxer wins and Monica threat goes up in smoke # AL GORE Chit-rich V.P. turns eyes toward 2000 as rival Gephardt is still stuck in the minority # GEORGE &; BARBARA BUSH Their sons the Governors ! Now they are looking for a nice state for Neil to run # &; LOSERS# KEN STARR After four years and $40 million, his biggest casualty turns outto be the Speaker of the House # RALPH REED Education's in, morality's out: Christian conservative consultant flops # BIG BANKERS &; BROKERS Chances for bank reform drop as Gramm replaces D'Amato on Senate Banking Committee"
1997:FIC """ Count on it! "" # Then in a quiet, confiding tone: "" Or what's more likely with kids like you that've got folks who care for' em and look after' em is that you're scared' cause about every other kid in school and especially the losers and dealers are carryin', and that's why you think you need somekinda protection. In which case, I'm telling you in front of your folks that this damn thing is no kind of protection at all and that the best way of gettin' your head blown off is"
1999:MAG "Yankees may want to play ball! Plus, only one person defected # AL GORE Strikes right note on Littleton; polls rise. Barred from subbing for Larry King, but job front rosy # NINETY-YEAR-OLDS Nearly 4% of nonagenarians still work, says study. Their college loans are almost paid # LOSERS # MICHAEL EISNER Trial reveals Disney boss derided Katzenberg as '' the little midget."" Little Mermaid wants blood # KENNETH STARR His prosecution of obscure Monicagate figure ends in hung jury. Paging Pepperdine... # BOB DOLE His campaign owes $4 million. Upside: he wo n't be the only guy"
1993:FIC "Are you sure it's old? "" "" Well, I'm not sure. We'll have to find out. "" "" Can we keep it? "" Charly asked. "" No, no. Not really. It's not ours to keep. '' '' But finders keepers, losers weepers, '' July said. '' Not in this case, '' Zanny saidfirmly. "" It's a big problem out here. "" "" What's a big problem? "" Liberty asked. "" Pothunters. These things belong to the Indians who live here. They do not belong"
1995:MAG "Economist's projection that "" within a generation, perhaps half of today's poor nations could be rich by current standards. "" Not surprisingly, this outcome for Third World people will also entail better markets for rich countries like our own. Economics is about win-win growth, not about winners and losers; across the world, the gaps between rich and poor nations are closing.4) Cooperation is good, competition is bad. Is cooperation more Christian than competition? Some people believe that competition in business unlike sports) is unhealthy and often immoral -- an effort to "" do in """
1996:NEWS "their 50's hit "" All I Have to Do Is Dream. "" Then the bride kicked off her slippers and everybody broke into the Macarena. # This is a happy place, and an imaginatively realized one . Where else could you find yourself swept into a whirling phantasmagoria of winners and losers, brides and grooms, coins, dice, cards, rocks, wolves,waterfalls, stretched animal skins, forgotten teen-age heartthrobs, cloud machines and attractively decorated restaurants where an international array of one-star food is served with four-star cheerfulness. Do n't you hate yourself for lacking the imagination to think"
1995:MAG "'s 10th century citadel, once used as a coronation site for medieval kings. # And then Knin appeared to give itself over to one of war's more oddly languorous moments. The streets were deserted, apart from scattered corpses and rescue vehicles scavenging about like small birds. Abandoned by the losers, as yet unoccupied by the winners, the city seemed lost in its pause, as if reflecting on the raw brutality with which the victors had smitten the vanquished. "" Almost the only people remaining, "" said Major Alan Balfour, a U.N. spokesman, "" were the dead and"
1996:MAG "salary, a White House ringed with tank barriers and a Camp David getaway that's been described as "" a medium-quality boys' camp without the horses. "" The also-rans are in the fast lane to Candy Land . # First the speaking fees. Robert Barnett is the contract negotiator for vice-presidentiallosers Geraldine Ferraro and Dan Quayle and First Lady coulda-been Kitty Dukakis. In his calculation, an articulate candidate who departs the field with an honorable discharge -- no scandals, a statistically detectable base of voter support -- "" can do five or six speeches a month, at fees ranging from $10,000 to"
1999:MAG "his eyes like windshield-wiper spray. He fell asleep in the recliner in his den and snored away until supper. // This is the same man who was the very symbol of the tyrannical coach obsessed beyond reason with winning. He was the genius who took a Green Bay Packers team of perenniallosers and whipped it by the sheer force of his will into the holy terror thatwon five NFL championships, including the first two Super Bowls, in his nine years at the helm. He was the master of all he surveyed, and in heavily Catholic Green Bay he was called the Pope"
1994:MAG "351390 WINNERS # MIA FARROW # Her first post-Woody work in Widows' Peak is wildly praised # WINNIE MANDELA # Nelson's estranged wife-felon rates post in new government # DARYL F. GATES # Former Los Angeles top cop dropped from Rodney King's lawsuit # LOSERS # WOODY ALLEN # He loses custody appeal -- and is forced to pay Mia's legal bills # OPERATION RESCUE # Antiabortion group loses big-bucks suit to Planned Parenthood # BRUCE BABBITT # It's Babbitt; it's Babbitt; it's Babbitt... um, it's not Babbitt"
1990:MAG "hones that both America and Russia are threatened not by each other but by the increasing pressures from the so-called Third World. f, then, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States have lost the advantage of their victories in World War II, does that also mean that the erstwhilelosers, Germany and Japan, have become the winners? Yes and no. Yes, because their prosperity already has defied all materialistic logic, including that of the population experts. For some time now Japan and West Germany have enjoyed the rank of economic and financial superpowers. The most prosperous nations"
1991:MAG "rent to their customers, they now bought a hundred. Forget that the budget for that extra fifty copies used to be spent on lower-profile movies. These are tough times. Though box office in 1991 was hurting from so many flops, video could cut its losses by reducing the number of losersoccupying valuable shelf space or drop them altogether. Video chains became like bookstores thatonly stock bestsellers. Good for business, sure, but what's to read? # The way we use video changed fundamentally in 1991, but the impact has only begun to be felt. Less than a"
1996:MAG ": As the rate of new wealth creation fueled by digital technology rises, the number of people required to produce it decreases.... The most important fact about these layoffs is that they result not from corporate failures but from what is defined as success.... But they create a society of winners and losers that is unpleasant even for the winners to live in. Unpleasant may be puttingit mildly. Even the most ardent advocates of ending the welfare state would be appalled if they could see what will happen if we really do dismantle it. Some years ago Fallows made a prescient comment that his"
1998:MAG "in summer. So eventually the running around and explosions commence. As usual, the main things lost in the hubbub are wit and logic. # -- By Richard Schickel 359297 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # MONICA LEWINSKY Cuts the deal that delivers her, and her mother, from legal peril. Must have been lonely there in limbo # LINDA TRIPP She vents, Lucianne crows, soon Monica sings &; Bill squirms. It's The Witches of Eastwick 1998! # CLOTHIERS This week"
1997:MAG "ball? George Bush hit the dirt too. # WHITE HOUSE EASTER-EGG ROLL Phew! Some broken eggs but no jokes about Chinese egg rolls and unsavory Asian connections. # DIGITAL TV A boon to broadcasters? Maybe . But do we really want to see Dan Rather's pores? # &; LOSERS # NEWT GINGRICH Tough talk in China, but comes home to a wife whosays, If you pay this fine, I'm history. # STRAWBERRIES Biggest scare since Alar -- remember that? Kids and berries take it on the arm. # JACK MCMAHON There goes the vote? On"
1992:NEWS "a discovery by Californian Ray Hunter of Hughes Aircraft, who found that ozone-destroying CFCs used as a cleaning fluid for electronic circuit boards can be replaced by a brew of citrus juices and water. Apply such common-sense ingenuity to other population-environment problems and the possibilities are endless. # CHART: # POPULATION LOSERS ARE WINNERS The good news is that many developing countries in recent years have enactedpopulation programs that have sucessfully reduced average family size. The bad news is that their population will continue to grow, owing to lower death rates and an increase in the number of women of child-bearig age. Average"
1993:MAG "last year and recently liquidate Solo laundry detergent and White Cloud toilet paper. "" Do n't use that term, "" says Artzt, 63, about the Schwarzeneggerian tag. Okay, mercy killer. Since handhearted retailers are yanking slow-selling items from store shelves, Artzt is opting to lose his own losers by expunging 25% of P &G's; myriad shapes and sizes of products. He alsojust announced plans to close 20% of P &G's; factories and cut 13,000 jobs, 12% of the total. The CEO's aim: Generate $500 million in after-tax savings over three years. Coming up with a lower-cost"