2001:NEWS "a larger financial institution. # And some of metro Atlanta's corporate titans who sit on the boards of SunTrust and Wachovia find themselves on opposite sides of the table. # Opinion is divided as to who will ultimately win the prize. But if the battle is protracted, analysts say the losers may well be customers and employees. # '' It could hurt morale, ''said analyst Thomas Theurkauf at Keefe, Bruyette &; Woods, a securities firm specializing in financial services stocks. "" Employees do n't know what's going to happen next. Customer service could deteriorate. "" # SunTrust"
2002:FIC "holding their dripping dogs at a distance like medical specimens to keep from staining their blue uniforms. Head down, I hid in the crowd. Damned and Delighted: A Collectors "" Guide to Mermaid Avenue. Clean people tried to avoid me. They eyed me the way I had stared at losers on the boardwalk. I found a restroom and checked myself in the tin mirror. Uncombed. Unshaven. I looked drunk. I did what I could with cold water. By evening, I knew where I'd find her, where I'd known all along. Look for mermaids in"
2003:FIC ", or whether the night or the scotch or the water have transformed him, but whatever it might be, his music erases time, then space, then identity, and I become nothing more than a fleeting , pleasant thought in the mind of an idle god. '' Abducting is for losers, babe. '' # 10146 Paolo Bacigalupi made his first appearance in our pages back in 1998 with "" A Pocketful of Dharma. "" After several years of working in other genres,"
2009:FIC "of energy. # Just in case, he reached inside his ancient denim jacket, closed his fingers loosely around the handle of the snub-nosed.45 he carried on his frequent gambling junkets. Garth Brooks might have friends in low places like the Black Rose, but he didn't. Only sore losers, crooks and card sharps hung out in this neighborhood, and Dylan Creed fellinto the latter category. # He was within six feet of the truck before he realized there was someone sitting in the passenger seat. He debated whether to draw the.45 or his cell phone in the split"
2000:MAG "natural law into new domains are typical in the history of scientific progress. Newman has produced a revolutionary electromagnetic technology for the 21st century. EVAN SOULE JR. New Orleans 367112 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # JUAN MIGUEL GONZALEZ You got him, but temper the communist badgeringwith a little Pokemon, O.K.? # CHARLES RAMSEY D.C. police boss gets kudos for handling IMF protests. Should get consulting gig with Reno # LEONARDO DICAPRIO ABC airs Earth Day chat with Prez. Now if only"
2003:MAG ", at least in the aggregate. For every shareholder who bought at a fraudulently inflated price, another shareholder has sold: The buyer's individual loss is offset by the seller's gain. Assuming all traders are ignorant of the fraud, over time they will come out winners as often as losers from fraudulently distorted prices. Therefore, shareholders should have no expected loss from fraudon the market, so they would have no incentive to take precautions against the fraud. Diversification protects them. # Despite the lack of gain to the corporation, class action lawsuits allow a full measure of compensation"
2001:MAG "they are failing in a country consecrated to success -- became immediately recognizable. Carver resisted the trend toward gentrification in U.S. fiction, the Jamesian notion that only those with fine-tuned sensibilities and no money worries have the leisure to mess up their lives in interesting ways. Carver could write about life's losers without any condescension because he had often felt he was one of them. # His stories appeared so simple and effortless that many aspiring writers decided to turn them out themselves. These admirers might get the props right -- say, a mobile home with linoleum on the floor and an opened bottle"
2001:NEWS "hold everything, but there's never enough room, so yards fill with boats, kennels, old cars and stacks of lumber. # Such clutter is maddening to firefighters, trained to view the world in terms of its potential to burn. They lump all houses into two simple categories: losers and keepers. # Is brush cleared at least 30 feet out from the house? Are gutters clean of leaves? Is the yard free of flammable junk and firewood? Are the walls and roof made of fire-resistant materials? If so, the house may be a keeper. # As for"
2007:FIC ", was unconventional-but in a completely different way. At last count, her mother had been married six times. Or was it seven? Teri had lost count. Her sister was more like her mother than Teri had ever been, but at least Christie was smart enough not to marry the losers who walked in and out of her life. Not that Teri was exempt fromsome of life's painful lessons herself. Particularly those that fell into the category of men-whouse-and-abuse. Teri still had a hard time believing Bobby Polgar could love her. She worked in a hair and nail salon and"
2001:MAG "unchallenged, make the sky fall. Thank you for using your voice to build us all up a bit. You were heard. MARK ARNOLD St. Louis, Mo. 369297 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # LOUIS FREEH Bush keeps current FBI boss. Now, about thatOlympic bomber still running around the woods... # JOSH HEUPEL Okla. QB loses Heisman to Fla. State QB, then smokes him in Orange Bowl to win nat'l title # MARY MATALIN Crossfire co-host named Cheney adviser"
2005:MAG ", as CEO. Willis then went public in 2001, and it recently had a market value of $5.6 billion. The weakness of the 1996 fund is that it's had a terrible batting average, like Jason Giambi off steroids. Of the 34 companies KKR put money into, 15 became losers. Some of the flops were telecom companies that KKR, though it likes tothink itself a value investor, got sucked into during the bubble hysteria. A hoary struggler is Primedia, which owns about 120 special-interest magazines (Motor Trend, for example). The company has had problems,"
2005:NF "strong for some to resist. Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries is probably the most prominent example of resorting to what Mark A. R. Kleiman characterizes as: # one of the oldest tricks on the books, one almost guaranteed to make a success of any program: counting the winners and ignoring the losers. The technical form for this in statistics is '' selection bias ''; programmanagers know it as "" creaming. "" # In his August 5, 2003, Slate article, "" Faith-Based Fudging, "" Kleiman comments on 75 of 177 volunteer inmates who graduated from Colson's program at the"
2001:MAG "to start paying for coffee and tea. And for the stressed-out folks at Xerox, fresh bagels no longer grace morning meetings. A Xerox manager asked his group to limit, of all things, the number of copies by using both sides of the paper. Which suggests that along with the losers in the current slowdown, there may be one unexpected winner -- trees. # -- By Carole Buia 369506 In a cement-floored warehouse in upstate New York, half a dozen women sit hunched"
2001:MAG "of frightening the nation and created an atmosphere of worry and hardship so as to promote his own self-interests and those of his friends. "" Whew! # While Glaciers Melt 370002 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # MARIAH CAREY Diva inks industry-high $80 mil. deal with Virgin.Spares her the need to hawk anyone's cola # WANG ZHIZHI Chinese send 7-ft. 1-in. hoopster to NBA. Seems the U.S. is a lot less sensitive about airspace # M.I.T. U. to allow auditing of courses online for"
2003:MAG ", from cops who risk their careers if they seek out tough cases (because those cases raise the unsolved-murder rate) to down-and-out union workers taking payoffs to let contraband (or worse) slip by customs. # More than a crime writer or social dramatist, Simon is a poet of beautiful losers. He has an unfailing ear for dialogue (getting a hard-to-solve case is ''catching a stone whodunit ""), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome --"
2001:MAG "And for those whose disks are only a little misaligned but still intact, nucleoplasty might finally provide some welcome relief. # Dr. Ian appears on NBC's Today show. 370996 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY Meticulous new Microsoft judge goes from anonymity to Bill Gates' best pal # ELIZABETH DOLE Fave for Helms' vacancy packs her carpetbag. More interested in the seat or the scooter? # METTE-MARIT TJESSEM HOIBY Single mom with drug past weds Prince of Norway. Will she"
2008:NF "was shorting horses. "" 34 Click. A slide about horses popped up. // U.S. HORSE POPULATION // 1900 - 17 million // 1998 - 5 million // "" Frankly, I? m kind of disappointed that the Buffett family was not shorting horses throughout this entire period. There are always losers. '' // Members of the audience chuckled, albeit faintly. Their companies mightbe losing money, but in their hearts beat a conviction that they were winners, supernovas blazing at the cusp of a momentous shift in the heavens. Undoubtedly their names would grace the pages of history books someday"
2009:FIC ", now? "" # Anthony jumped, then consulted the map again hastily. Marky was right. He was n't keeping his mind on the job enough. A mean voice in his head added that this was why the losers were errand boys, that it was in fact why they remained losers. # The thought was so surprising, so different from anything he had evercome up with before, that he wondered for an instant if maybe it was n't coming from some other head. Marky's, maybe. # But no. Marky was an errand boy, too. Just"
2000:NEWS "Jeff Van Gundy before the mikes-in-the-huddle idea disappeared: "" We've got to play! We're not playing! "" Riveting stuff... Listen, as much as we defend Bobby Knight, we're not that wild about a coach putting his hands on a player. But the real losers in this deal are the accusers, widely ridiculed by Knight's current players,and some devious minds at CNN/SI, who worked forever on the project but blatantly aired it now -- just in time to give Indiana one hell of a distraction... What's the big news here?"
2003:FIC "'ll call you. "" # Pia nods and watches him walk away. She thinks Adil might turn around, but he does n't, and then he vanishes into the crowd. Left alone in the paddock, she listens to the amplified voice of the commentator declare the day's winners and losers. # Her father reads a novel: The Other Side of Midnight. Hepushes his gold-rimmed glasses firmly against his nose. She'd like to speak to him about Adil, tell him how she feels so she can make sense of things. # Pia fiddles with the knobs of the"
2000:MAG "is all Gen Y? 69-year-old star reups with ABC for reported $60 million # BILL CLINTON No Whitewater charges. After all this, God forbid that anyone apologize # SADDAM HUSSEIN Global oil jitters could put him in economy's driver's seat. Who really won the Gulf War? # &; LOSERS # DICK EBERSOL Olympics ratings sag; NBC sports czar moans. Time to callthem "" tribes "" instead of "" teams ""? # AL GORE Questionable tales of pro-union lullabies and arthritic dog slow that spring in his step # ANDY GROVE Chips are down. After weak European demand, Intel"
2006:MAG "3634. BLUE-CHIP GROWTH STOCKS FOR THE LONG RUN. Like other growth stocks, those on our list took a beating in June, with 49 of 70 falling. Two of the biggest losers: Boston Scientific, which voluntarily recalled thousands of pacemakers and defibrillators, and AnadarkoPetroleum, which fell after it agreed to buy Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources for more than $21 billion in cash. That move may pay off in the long run but is depressing the stock today. This article"
2007:FIC "' turf' rules, and you know it. "" "" Still, common courtesy dictates when you're in the neighborhood-literally, in this case-you at least say hello. Besides, how come we never hang out ? You owe me some quality time. You spend enough time with those other losers. '' The losers he referred to were my friends and the only decent vampiresI'd ever met. Most vampires-like Duane-were arrogant, devoid of social skills, and obsessed with territoriality. Not unlike a lot of mortal men I'd met. "" If you do n't let me go,"
2002:FIC "the first time I understood something else, too: why I had waited years to ring Gwen's doorbell, why even then it had taken an active effort of will not to turn away. It was the same reason: Because it was a game, a game with clear winners and losers, with rules as complex and arcane as a cotillion, and most of allbecause it partook so little of the messy turmoil of real life. The stakes seemed high, but they were n't. It was ritual, that was all - movement without action, a dance of spin and"
2001:MAG "Now, about that Olympic bomber still running around the woods... # JOSH HEUPEL Okla. QB loses Heisman to Fla. State QB, then smokes him in Orange Bowl to win nat'l title # MARY MATALIN Crossfire co-host named Cheney adviser. Does he know she yells a lot? # &; LOSERS # GRAY DAVIS Calif. Gov. faces outages, soaring utility rates. Better getthe lights turned on before 2002 campaign # GEORGE MAGAZINE J.F.K. Jr.' s mag ends run. Making pols hip in Bush era would have been hard anyway # VLADIMIR GUSINSKY Anti-Putin media mogul faces new charges."
2001:MAG "but you not able to touch the racket ever again in your life,' I say,' O.K., I take that.' "" // Who could blame him? Blessed with an effortless bomb of a serve, Ivanisevic seemed destined to finish his career as one of sport's lovable losers, a man who could make tennis look both so easy and so hard.Of his three defeats in the Wimbledon final -- one to Andre Agassi and two to Sampras -- he said early in the fortnight, "" I'm not psychologist, you know. I am mature, but sometimes"
2008:NF "had been put into the companies and left there. So autos had an enormous impact on America, but in the opposite direction on investors. "" // He put down the list to shove his hand in his pocket. '' Now, sometimes it? s much easier to figure out the losers. There was, I think, one obvious decision back then. And ofcourse, the thing you should have been doing was shorting horses. "" 34 Click. A slide about horses popped up. // U.S. HORSE POPULATION // 1900 - 17 million // 1998 - 5 million // """
2009:FIC "when she was on a tirade, and it made him wince. He came inside the inn and looked into the Den of Thieves. Sure enough, the perpetual whist game was in progress. Whist anywhere but the Drake tended to be a polite game, but he knew how noisy poor losers could be, and the room he usually rented was right overhead. # Mrs.Fillion drew breath from her rant concerning greengrocers in general, and this one in particular, and glanced his way. She came over immediately, which gratified him, but did not change his sudden resolve. #"
2000:MAG "execs were aware of the devastating impact that the asbestos claims were likely to have, even as Lloyd's was feverishly recruiting unsuspecting new Names to help absorb the losses. 366599 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # JOHN McCAIN Wins Michigan, endorsements, but phone alerts painting Bushas anti-Catholic means St. John bit is shot # ANDREI BABITSKY Missing Russian who reported Chechens' side turns up. World rejoices; he still faces charges # DAVID LETTERMAN His heartfelt return pumps up the ratings. New"
2007:FIC ", and you know it. "" "" Still, common courtesy dictates when you're in the neighborhood-literally, in this case-you at least say hello. Besides, how come we never hang out? You owe me some quality time. You spend enough time with those other losers. '' The losers he referred to were my friends and the only decent vampires I'd ever met. Most vampires-like Duane-were arrogant, devoid of social skills, and obsessed with territoriality. Not unlike a lot of mortal men I'd met. "" If you do n't let me go, you're going to"
2007:MAG "3'' 9 "" and wearing a lovely, supportive man-bra. -- Ed. CLEVELAND, STEAMED So I'm sitting there in my favorite reading place enjoying the September Gear Guide issue, when I stumble upon this line: '' After all, only the residents of Cleveland like to read about losers. '' Where the hell did that come from? Don't you think it's hard enough just being a Browns fan in the first place without having to endure cheap shots from you? You should appreciate that being a Browns fan is like being a skier. It's in my blood"
2001:MAG "six times those costs. # Of course, Sakson has some risk here. He ran the phenylpropanolamine ad for four months, collecting a handful of potentially lucrative cases. But it could be three to four years before any of the cases go to trial or settle. And they could be losers. Billions of doses of the drug (a cousin of amphetamine) have beenconsumed since it hit the market 65 years ago. Proving a link between a single dose and a stroke will be tough, considering the number of other potential causes. # Until then there are plenty more cases"
2001:MAG ". deal with Virgin. Spares her the need to hawk anyone's cola # WANG ZHIZHI Chinese send 7-ft. 1-in. hoopster to NBA. Seems the U.S. is a lot less sensitive about airspace # M.I.T. U. to allow auditing of courses online for free. Can porn sites handle the competition? # LOSERS # BARBRA STREISAND Diva inks memo saying W. stole Fla. as latest talley says hewon. Foot in mouth not just Euro's problem # VINCENT (BUDDY) CIANCI Providence mayor indicted for racketeering, bribes, extortion. Overqualified for job? # COSCO INC. Baby-product co. fined over defects."
2001:NEWS "'s long since become an accepted axiom that New York is top dog over Chicago. # "" You've got to believe there's some kind of connection between the general public and how its sports teams do, '' Beck says. # '' It's not that people in Chicago relish being losers, it's just that they accept that in life there are losers. It's sort of like the Russian national character - this stolid determination to survive no matter how bad life treats you. "" # Winning, according to conventional wisdom, is good for not just civic pride but the"
2002:FIC "after Web, and then said he'd shoot Web and everyone else dead with it. HA-HA! Web glanced to the rooftops, where he knew members of Whiskey Team and X-Ray were in their forward firing positions with rounds seated and lethal beads drawn on the brain stems of this gaggle of losers. The snipers were Web's best friends. He understood exactly how they approachedtheir work, because for years he had been one of them. For months at a time Web had lain in steamy swamps with pissed-off water moccasins crawling over him. Or else been wedged into wind-gusted clefts of"
2005:FIC "them. Okay. They had n't seen him and even if they'd seen him, they did n't know him. Why should they bother to ring his chimes? That only left the other explanation. The worse one. She was something real. And-if the rest of what those runt losers said was true, too-she was going to find him and kill him, becausehe'd seen her and she'd seen him. Bloody Mary. Magnus shivered, heading for home-or what passed for home these days. Even at its worst, it was still better than the one he'd"
2001:FIC "we've drawn closer to Massilia. You see, when he decided to flee from his enemies in Rome, this was where Catilina intended to cometo Massilia, I mean. Massilia is the end of the worldthe end of the road for Roman exiles, anywaya safe port for all the bitter losers and failed schemers who've seen their hopes destroyed in Rome. At Massilia theyfind a welcomeprovided they arrive with enough gold to pay their way in. But not Catilina. In the end, he chose not to flee. He stood his ground and fought. And so he lost his"
2001:FIC "had a party and one boy cut his fingertip off! "" A rally of guffawing as Davis sits unprepared to react, cracking half a smile to seem game, wondering if this joke is meant to draw him close or frighten him. Davis's friends were nothing like this, prep school losers who dipped tobacco so as not to get caught smoking, one boy still wettinghis bed, another full of dirty jokes and a disturbing wandering eye, all of them terribly frightened of the boys who seemed capable, athletic and sure, talented and awarded by the faculty. Davis's friends"
2005:FIC """ # "" Not a problem there. "" # "" Your boyfriend? "" # Chandra stuck out her tongue-pierced, Dugan saw, with a silver ball that sat like a pearl in the center. Apparently that didn't come out on Sundays. '' I guess you haven't seen the losers at my school. '' # '' As long as you- '' # '' Dugan. "" She leaned in close, her voice a sharp whisper. "" Do you really think you'd be here if I'd told anyone? You'd be, like, in prison or something. """
2000:NEWS "brings an Earndhardt-like greediness to the track that sometimes gets him in trouble -- even with Labonte. # 2. Dale Jarrett # Money: $ 3,608,829. # Points: 5,262. # Rank: 1st. # By finally winning a Winston Cup, Dale Jarrett solidified his place among the greatest losers in NASCAR history. Greatest what? No, really, it's a compliment, with the emphasis on greatest. You see, only three other modern-era drivers have taken home a championship with fewer wins than Jarrett's four in 1999 -- Terry Labonte (two wins in 1984, two in"
2009:FIC "Quinctilius Varus, had thought differently. He'd killed himself at Philippi along with Brutus and Cassius after they lost against Antony and Octavian -- who was not yet calling himself Augustus. Almost fifty years ago now; Publius had been a boy. He was lucky the victors hadn't proscribed the losers' families. He nodded solemnly. He was lucky a lot of ways.# Soldiers guarded Augustus' residence. Augustus was no fool -- he was about as far from a fool as a man could be. He knew some people still resented his mastery of Rome. Three cohorts of"
2000:MAG "n't be true that he was a nobody, although, on the other hand, what kind of somebody spends the best years of his life swearing at a photocopier? "" # That concluding question typifies the sort of humor that Saunders consistently wrings out of his characters' constrained existences. These losers are too self-aware to pity, and the world they perceive is unsettlingly familiar.Think TV ca n't get any more moronic? Check out what Saunders' people watch: How My Child Died Violently or The Worst That Could Happen, "" a half-hour of computer simulations of tragedies that have never"
2000:MAG "growing. "" We do n't want to be the biggest Hispanic agency, "" she says. "" We want to be the best. "" # -- By Desa Philadelphia 366902 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # FIDEL CASTRO Lets dad go to U.S.; takes edge in cuteCuban urchin p.r. war. Time for Gore to adopt Elian? # ' N SYNC Bubble-gum boy band's CD breaks records. Next stop: rehab # KATHLEEN TURNER Nude at 45 in stage version of The"
2005:NF "of non-devout teenagers is composed of the vast number of "" rebellious "" teens who actively reject some or even most of mainstream society's rules, norms, and values. These teenagers come in kaleidoscopic variety -- gangstas , punks, goths, dopers, dropouts, bikers, slackers, skinheads, losers, ravers, weirdos, cokeheads, junkies, thrill seekers, risk takers,pill poppers, shit kickers, and dozens of other rebellious subcultures of the social environment. This vast group of young people have three basic traits in common: they tend not to be religious, they tend to"
2000:FIC ", sheepishly. "" Well, good for you, "" said Sara. "" You know, you could at least pretend to like him, "" said Adam. "" God knows I've pretended to like some of the losers you've brought to the house over the years. '' ''Losers? Who? '' demanded Sara. '' The gem guy, for one,"" said Adam. The gem guy had been a man a few summers earlier who dealt in rare stones and the occasional coin. He was from Bahrain and was quite handsome, yet it turned out that he"
2001:MAG "Meticulous new Microsoft judge goes from anonymity to Bill Gates' best pal # ELIZABETH DOLE Fave for Helms' vacancy packs her carpetbag. More interested in the seat or the scooter? # METTE-MARIT TJESSEM HOIBY Single mom with drug past weds Prince of Norway. Will she take his name? # LOSERS # MITCH DANIELS Budget director's rosy report says there really is a surplus.Also sees Tupac at 7-Eleven # JERRY JACOBSON Cops say he ran $13 million McDonald's Monopoly scam. Go to jail, go directly to jail? # ALASKANS Governor declares overfished waters a disaster area. Time to"
2006:FIC "Stay out of my e-mails, you jackbooted Nazis! If you prying motherfuckers do n't pull your thumbs out of MY business, I'm going to dump a coffee milkshake into the main server! Do n't you have anything better to do than spy on me like a bunch of virgin idiot losers? We've got viruses up the ass and our firewall is constantly going down, so you ca n't tell me you've got nothing better to do than read e-mails. Don, if you want to fire me, then fucking fire me. If you want me to get my work"
2004:NEWS "a save for the Mets in June last season when he walked in the tying run in a game against the Yankees at Shea Stadium. (Photo by Vincent Laforet/The New York Times) (pg. 3) 648946 # KEVIN TOWERS looks forward to the date in July that separates contenders from losers. # '' I'd like to be adding in July rather than subtracting aswe've done the last five years, "" San Diego Padres General Manager Towers said of the July 31 deadline for making trades without waivers. # The inclination is to say "" the surprising San Diego Padres,"
2000:FIC "seemed to be on the docket all the time. "" I guess so, "" Rook said. "" What do you have to say? "" Spicer asked the Whiz. Whiz stood and took a few steps toward their table. He glared at his accusers, Rook and his gang of losers. Then he addressed the court. '' What's the burden of proof here? "" Justice Spicer immediately lowered his eyes and waited for help. As a Justice of the Peace, he'd had no legal training. He'd never finished high school, then worked for twenty years in"
2000:MAG "guessed it -- flowing water. "" It's reinvent or die, "" says Abraham. "" That's the only way to keep a trend like this going. "" 368602 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # KIM JONG IL No Nobel, but Albright (and Clinton?) to visit North Korea. Hey, try for' 12 Olympic bid too # CHARLES BAKALY Monicagate finally winding down as ex-Starr flack acquitted in news-leak case # JORGE RIVERA NASA official lauded for halting risky shuttle launches"
2001:MAG "the media would stop hounding the men and women who served in Vietnam. They did what they had to do to stay alive. "" # For the Love of Dope 370301 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # SILVIO BERLUSCONI Billionaire to head Italy's 59th gov't since WW II. Have fun, but please do n't monogram anything # JAYALALITHA JAYARAM Despite corruption bust, Indian actress elected in state of Tamil Nadu (Hindi for New Jersey) # KRISPY KREME 1st-qtr profits up 89%. People"
2004:FIC "monster. Back at the? INT. DUTTON HEIGHTS HOUSING PROJECTS - MOMENTS LATER GORDON creaks up the stairs. He approaches a DOOR that says "" ROOF "". He eases it OPEN. The scruffy GUNMAN yells up at TV NEWS HELICOPTERS. # GUNMAN # No identifying marks. A million losers never finish. His blond hair, going gray, sticks to his lips ashe screams. GUNMAN (CONT'D) Spider nasty. Do n't noise it. No gangrene lunch. GORDON steps out on the roof, hands open in front of him. The GUNMAN has a 9mm pressed"
2000:FIC "fine. "" "" He's good in bed, "" Adam said, sheepishly. "" Well, good for you, "" said Sara. "" You know, you could at least pretend to like him, '' said Adam. '' God knows I've pretended to like some of the losers you've brought to the house over the years. '' '' Losers? Who? "" demanded Sara. "" The gem guy, for one, "" said Adam. The gem guy had been a man a few summers earlier who dealt in rare stones and the occasional coin. He was"
2006:MAG "and Foreign Minister Taro Aso, decried the widening gap between the best- and least-paid members of Japanese society and sought to outdo each other with promises to siphon more tax money from prospering cities to benighted provinces. "" It's not very encouraging that suddenly all the candidates want to talk about giving losers a second chance, '' says Merrill Lynch economist Jesper Koll. '' Koizumi madeit clear that his policy was to back winners. "" Nor does Abe's leadership style inspire. Where Koizumi is a brash maverick who reveled in the slogan "" Reform without sacred cows "" and attacked his party"
2006:NEWS "of Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass cohort, Bam Margera, rumored to be involved with pop star Jessica Simpson. # Skateboarding, too, has been a major force in the widespread popularity and commodification of urban street art. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts hosted an exhibition titled '' Beautiful Losers, '' which featured a '' free basin '' for skateboarders to drop by andskate in last year. Some of the better known San Francisco artists, such as Tommy Guerrero, Chris Johanson and members of the Mission School, have been skateboarders; graffiti artists and skateboarders share a propensity to"
2005:NF "perusing that same media makes one thing clear: Climate change is difficult for people to evaluate dispassionately because it entails deep political and industrial implications, and because it arises from the core processes of our civilization's success . This means that, as we seek to address this problem, winners and losers will be created. The stakes are high, and this has led to aproliferation of misleading stories as special interest groups argue their case. // What's more, climate change is a breaking story. Just over thirty years ago the experts were at loggerheads about whether Earth was warming or"
2003:MAG "mercy to the oppressed # What begins as praise for divine loving-kindness toward a marginalized and op pressed woman grows to embrace all the poor of the world. The second part of the Magnificat articulates the great biblical theme of reversal, where lowly groups are defended by God while the arrogant end up losers. # Proclaiming her song, Mary continues this deep stream of Jewish faith inthe context of the advent of the Messiah, now taking shape within her. The approaching reign of God will disturb the order of the world run by the hard of heart, the oppressor. Through God's"
2001:MAG "with warnings of recession, as it has in recent weeks, the worst has usually passed, says InvesTech's Stack. # Despite all, you can take advantage of a bear market. You do n't have to be a market seer to take losses. Just have some plan for selling losers and reinvesting immediately in comparable, but not identical, stocks or funds. Thetax collector will share your pain. # If you end up with a $50,000 capital loss, only $3,000 of it can be used annually to offset salary and interest income, but the other $47,000 does n't go"
2005:MAG "said a Congressional Research Service report issued in 1990. # With oil prices high once again, the season is on for more tax hikes. In January Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski surprised oil executives by declaring that he would remove tax incentives from most outlying fields in Prudhoe Bay. The biggest losers: BP, Conoco Phillips and ExxonMobil, which together now face an additional annualtax bill of at least $90 million, estimates Fraser McKay of Wood Mackenzie. The trio have appealed the decision. # Investment in Bolivian natural gas exploration dropped 73% to a mere $13 million in the first half"
2004:MAG "too.? The evidence is compelling, however, that these Sonics wo n't fade away. Just listen to the vanquished. After the Sonics dumped the Mavericks 107-102 in Dallas last Thursday -- the night after snapping the San Antonio Spurs' 21-game home winning streak 102-96 -- there was a lot of head-shaking in the losers' locker room. Seattle swamped Dallas with a torrential offense, jacking 84 shotsand hitting 10 of 23 three-pointers, in essence out-Mav-ing the Mavs. "" You do n't want to get into a shootout with them, "" said Dallas guard Jason Terry, letting out a long, low whistle"
2004:FIC "from a back door. Gawain goes to the back of the hearse and opens its hatch to let out Lump Hudson, the football player. Lump helps unload five large and oddly shaped instrument cases, each man taking one except for Lump himself, who carries two. As the parade of losers and misfits winds its way up the walk: DORR... Let me introduce youto my friends, my colleagues, these devoted and passionate musicians... This is Gawain MacSam, our bassoonist... Gawain nods as he passes by. DORR... General Nguyen Pham Doc, viola da gamba... MRS"
2003:FIC "were playing. Wally was pleased to note that the guitar player they'd replaced him with was n't particularly good. During the breaks, his old bandmates sat at his table and gave him a hard time about being a corporate sellout. He gave them a hard time about being stoner bar-band losers. Two breaks and some beers later, he told them what was going onwith Amanda. They listened sympathetically-these were Wally's oldest and best friends-then assured him that Amanda's new boss was definitely porking her. Wally understood that they were just busting his balls. But when he left the"
2001:NEWS """ # Though from the Libertarian end of the political spectrum, Poole agrees. # "" You have to find a way to allocate the capacity and send signals that shift the peak, "" he said. "" Either the market picks who gets the scarce capacity or the government picks winners and losers, and that can be political, even arbitrary. '' # But it isgovernment's role to regulate markets so that those of lesser means have options besides usurous costs, or to provide subsidies, Etzioni said. # "" Is it OK to increase the price of snow shovels during a"
2005:NEWS "of Seattle if he continues at his present pace of 17 in 9 games (the NFL record is 27) # 13: Most consecutive victories at the start of a season since Miami's perfect season in 1972 (Denver in 1998; Indianapolis is 9-0) # 4: Consecutive Super Bowl losers who have missed the playoffs the following season (Philadelphia, trying to avoid beingNo. 5, has a 4-5 record) # CHART: # Division dominance Five teams -- Seattle, Indianapolis, Denver, Chicago and New England -- are undefeated in division games this year. Teams that won all"
2003:NF "out there, on that clam strip? "" O'Keefe said. // "" You mean Truro? "" // "" That wilderness. Why do you people go for that? "" // You people could be Truro's movers and shakers, but more likely O'Keefe is referring to the Land's End losers, lost souls and drifters who wash ashore and pile up down here. //"" I guess it's not for everybody, "" I said. O'Keefe's sentiments mirrored those of the Reverend James Freeman, who in 1790 wrote about Truro, "" What could induce any person to remain in"
2005:NF "side had rifles and cannons, historians said, the other side? s motives were irrelevant. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Indians of the Northeast were thought of as rapidly fading background details in the saga of the rise of the United States -- '' marginal people who were losers in the end, '' as James Axtell of the College of William and Marydryly put it in an interview. Vietnam War-era denunciations of the Pilgrims as imperialist or racist simply replicated the error in a new form. Whether the cause was the Pilgrim God, Pilgrim guns, or Pilgrim greed"
2005:FIC # fear and violence that's encased in # this little envelope we call a # person -- all washed away in the # next few minutes. And your # grandmother knows why. # # TOYOTA # # Because God loves a winner. # # NICKY # # He used to love losers. But the # laws of physics changed. # TV SCREEN # Backman fliesout to Jim Rice. One out. # 92 INT. MANION'S OLD TIMER TAVERN - THE TABLE 92 # # NICKY # # Backman flies to Rice. It's like a # beautiful song lyric.
2000:NEWS ", eventually reaching over $200 billion a year. Gore contends the money would postpone Social Security's insolvency to 2050, which is far enough in the future to allow taking less radical measures now. # Gore said Bush's private accounts would '' turn Social Security into a system of winners and losers '' that would '' jeapardize the security of millions of Americans. '' # Butcritics say Gore's plan entails big risks too. # By shifting Social Security's vast liabilities onto the general budget -- where somehow the money would also have to materialize -- Gore's plan simply exchanges one IOU"
2001:NEWS "over Chicago. # "" You've got to believe there's some kind of connection between the general public and how its sports teams do, "" Beck says. # "" It's not that people in Chicago relish being losers, it's just that they accept that in life there are losers. It's sort of like the Russian national character - this stolid determination tosurvive no matter how bad life treats you. "" # Winning, according to conventional wisdom, is good for not just civic pride but the local economy. In 1998, Fortune magazine estimated that Jordan alone had"
2001:MAG "can now root for someone other than war-crime indictees # DONALD RUMSFELD Swing and a hit. Fourth Star Wars test a success. Program's batting average now.500 # KING SIMEON II Bulgarian King, deposed in 1946 at age 9, back as Prime Minister. Hope for Al Gore! # LOSERS # DENNIS HASTERT Speaker, formerly Mr. Nice Guy, mugs campaign-finance-reform vote. EvenNewt never did this # KARL ROVE W.'s Svengali implicated in idea to let Salvation Army ban gays. Back to Texas by fall? # JENNIFER LOPEZ Draws fire for using N word in new song. As"
2002:FIC "send their opponents to ignominious defeat. It was axiomatic that in America for the last two decades at least, God, like everyone else, had developed a consuming interest in the worlds of sports and entertainment and was forever helping individuals towards triumphs and rewards. He didn't seem to like losers much, and they never thanked him. # The TV went to commercial,there was a fireman's helmet and then a flag and then the name of an insurance company. The insurance company had decided to show the helmet and the flag against a background of stirring music. My wife"
2006:NEWS "the new Atlantic Station development. But he ultimately was swayed by free land near the park. Coca-Cola, the owner of that land, is now moving the World of Coca-Cola next door to the wildly successful aquarium . # Gains come at expense # But development is a game of winners and losers. # '' Centennial Park is becoming the nexus for exciting development, but itwill be drawing away from Underground and Five Points, "" said Charles Rutheiser, a former urban anthropology professor at Georgia State. "" When development takes place, it happens at the expense of other areas. """
2009:FIC "easy money, "" Polly said. "" I mean, how much work can it be to sit around and watch telegenic amateurs, and telling' em how delightful they are? "" # At the thought of being around attractive contestants, Tim became animated. '' I'm very compassionate toward losers. I may have to help comfort more than a few cute dancers or singersor sword swallowers. I'll be indispensable in helping to restore their self-worth! "" # "" Just do n't turn Pepper Plantation into a haven for Hollywood's ne'er-do-wells, "" Polly paused. "" Actually, I"
2009:FIC "She hates to cook???? # THAT'S her big confession? After all the pomposity, after all the "" I'm so much better than you, you poor things, why ca n't you be more like me ah, but you can't and never will, youLOSERS '' after waging a war on Christmas because retailers weren't saying the greeting SHEthought was most correct after being so paranoid about her husband that she hired a detective to spy on him after her kids were freaking out and drawing pictures of themselves in COFFINS # She expects us to be impressed"
2000:MAG "return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers. # GORE # TAXES 368704 In a normal election, if there is such a thing, it ought to be clear by the end what the race is about -- whether the candidates"
2004:MAG "try something outside the flow of their lives. They really pigeonhole themselves. "" Here's the other thing: The vast majority of the workforce is pretty unremarkable. They show up on time, they do their jobs, and they leave. I strongly believe that the difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don't want to do. It's notthat they're smarter or prettier, it's that they're willing to do things other people wo n't. "" I came out here to Los Angeles and started this TV show, and I knew that the"
2005:NF "He had an edge, // something in his jaw or his brow that made me self-conscious. // I turned toward the window to avoid his gaze. Families drove next // to us, on their way to the lake or the beach. Kids wearing headphones // gawked, surely wondering what losers were riding a school bus in the // summertime. A girl in an openJeep stood and started to raise her shirt // before being pulled back down by a laughing friend. They waved and // accelerated past. I thought of my friends, spending their summer vacations in // New York"
2004:NF "a society that is n't hung up on social status-people turning to each other and dishing up a story of astonishing frankness and intimacy. // In the new privatized low-tax minimal-services society the Republicans are striving to lay on us, public transportation will offer no pleasure whatsoever. The bus will be for losers and dopes. The driver will sit in a bullet-proof box and there will beno conversation with him. The bus will be full of angry and sullen people who have lost hope that their kids can rise in the world and have a better life, which is the hope that makes it"
2002:FIC "Games. "" "" What can I say? They're magnificent. Maybe a tad vulgar by purist standards but thousands of fans from the Sixteen Solar Quadrants pack the stadium. Everybody else watches from home. Glitz and glory. The winners win big, they get the Spirals and perks, losers get nice parting gifts. So, are you in or out? '' ''How do you rate our chances? "" "" To take home a Spiral? We'd have the underdog's advantage. And a certain freakish charm. The crowd might be with us. Except for the fundamentalists"
2000:MAG "and sales, making those sectors of the job market among the most intensely competitive. Meanwhile, retail stores and malls that do survive will increasingly resemble amusement parks. They will provide entertainment, movies, music, and special events in order to attract customers away from catalogs. 18. Internet Losers Lead Surge in Startups Sweeping changes from mergers and acquisitions, continued restructuring, andthe growth of Internet commerce are likely to lead to increased downsizing for professionals in the insurance and securities industries. However, the mass job displacement from these sectors may result in a surge of startups, which could"
2000:FIC "spread halfway across her face like somebody tossed acid on it or something. I try not to stare the first day that amazon woman-teacher heads my way. See, I got a way of attracting strange characters. They draw to me like someone stuck a note on my forehead saying, '' losers wanted here. '' Well, I spend a lot of time trying to fitin here at McClenton Middle School. I ai n't letting nobody ruin it for me, especially no teacher. I did n't even look up when Miss Saunders came up to me that day like I'm some"
2008:FIC "from the main road, the underbrush was thick, and he would have heard someone tramping through the woods. Right? Still, it was an odd place to be hiking. They were in the middle of nowhere out here, and the last thing he wanted was a bunch of hippie losers ruining this spot for the coeds. # By then, the stranger had passedhim. He was nearly to the cruiser and heading toward the Jeep that the girls had driven. Clayton stepped onto the road and cleared his throat. The stranger and the dog turned at the sound. #"
2001:FIC ". They come for lunch and play all kinds of card games and board games, and then a bell rings three minutes before they have to be back at work, and it's agreed that all the games end right then no matter who's winning or by how much, so the losers can stall until the bell rings and then they won't have lost anything.# "" The hero is a waiter named Albert Loriflan who used to live in a chateau and was brought up with the lord's own children and given a good education, and then the lord went to see"
2001:FIC "Caroline Pocock, the proof being that she despised me so thoroughly in the here and now. Whatever I might try to amend, that was the known outcome. # I said, "" Does that explain why the only people I see coming through that door seem to be life's born losers? '' # '' That's exactly what they are, '' Morley said."" They're the ones who ca n't accept what became common knowledge after the first few years. Which is that you gamble everything, and nothing changes. Nothing significant, anyway. The status quo is like"
2002:NF "jurisdictions and countering the impact of aging populations. 15 The new global marketplace for skills facilitates aggressive transnational recruiting by both governments and the private sector. The ability of some (northern) states to exercise considerable competitive advantage in the skills marl, et is apparent. There are inevitably going to be losers in this game, and the majority of them will be in the south,not the north. Yet to speak in binary terms of a north that gains and a south that loses is clearly much too simplistic in this context. 16 The United States and some European states are clear winners."
2001:MAG ", N.Y., dairy that offers single-serve bottles. "" And you can actually feel good about drinking it. "" Or at least feel younger. # -- By Rebecca Winters 370093 WINNERS &; LOSERS # WINNERS # JESSE HELMS Onetime Mexico foe goes south of the border to expandhis horizons. Next stop, Cuba? # MARGARET MITCHELL Tara saved! Federal judge says novel retelling GWTW from slave's p.o.v. violates copyright # MEL BROOKS Producers gets raves; show sold out. Who knew Hitler"
2000:NEWS "his Nokia cellular phone. Scoop: One of the calls was to the kitchen. Raign instructed the staff not to throw out the salad he'd sent back but to auction it on eBay and to give the proceeds to charity. # '' If you can't use your fame to help losers and poor people, what's the point of being famous? '' he tellsme as he flashes a dazzling grin. # How do movie stars get their teeth so white? It's almost like magic. # I ask Raign about his famous first name. (His last name,"
2004:NEWS "to the lying epidemic, cultural analysts say, might involve dual approaches: lessening pressures to cheat and heightening resistance in individuals. Mr. Callahan emphasizes the need to fix incentive systems that he says have produced "" too much competitiveness, too much insecurity, '' and '' a gap between winners and losers that is too big. '' Josephson, meanwhile, suggests educating the next generation, who may be enticed by the potential payoffs for liars, about the hefty costs of deception and shame. # "" The cost on the other side is too great. It's disgrace, "" Josephson says"
2006:MAG "over. He could hear the announcer's voice say: "" Pardon My French has been brought to you by Levitra. The more you know about ED, the more you'll want to know about Levitra. '' # # Lou got a kick out of that, Levitra for all the losers who couldn't get it up. He was fifty-six and still had a hard-onlike a steel post. He glanced at Karen -- hoping she'd slip her nightie off and attack him -- this good-looking woman who was more interested in TV than sex. What was wrong with this picture?"
2005:NEWS "can be recovered during that period of calm, but I doubt that the spirit of the lab will ever return to the level it had pre-Wen Ho Lee, no matter who' wins' the contract. "" # In the bidding competition, Holian said, '' The American people are the losers.... That is beyond doubt. '' # E-mail Keay Davidson at 25;3170;TOOLONG 51803# Anna Intxausti does n't look like a Cro-Magnon, but she might sound like one. # Intxausti is a Basque, and her language is the oldest and most enigmatic in all of Europe. Hardly anyone who"
2004:MAG "information geared to selling products -- not a lot of depth or scientific information. Dale Hanson Everett, Wash I do n't understand the apparent push to politicize science and technology matters in this publication. Your cover mixing images about science news with those of our president (conveniently tagged '' Winners &; Losers '') shows a lack of discipline. If you corrupt this magazine, youwill lose subscribers. Michael A. Thornton Florence, Ky Chemical Reaction In Theodore Gray's article on electrolysis "" The Subatomic Assembly of H2, "" POPULAR SCIENCE Adventure, Dec.' 03, he mentioned adding salt to"
2004:NEWS "think the public should have extremely strong confidence in Fannie Mae's financial disclosures, "" said Janet Pennewell, Fannie's vice president of financial reporting. 34802 # Being the defending Super Bowl champion is tough, but being the defending Super Bowl loser is even tougher. The past three Super Bowl losers (and four of the past five) have followed with losing seasons. # And while the Carolina Panthers' season might not necessarily be headed in that direction, they got off to a miserable start Monday night when their reworked offensive line was exposed in a 24-14 loss to the Green Bay"
2006:FIC "Lady Luck. # I HATE THIS PLACE. Someone got the idea - brilliant or inane, depending on how the meds are tickling my brain that day-to dress up this place with games. Someone thought the general air of Death might smell better with a whiff of Fortune. General collection of losers that we are, it would be nice if someone could win something once ina while. That's the idea. Brilliant or inane, it truly does not matter. You'd have to live here to see the boldness of the notion. You'd have to be breathing in the"
2007:MAG "did n't like what it did to her mother. Several weeks after that, I went to my first AA meeting. I was shamelessly haughty about the ragtag mix of people there, including a schizophrenic and an octogenarian with a speech impediment. Surely I wasn't as bad off as these losers. Still, I did as the group suggested -- I kept going back.Over the next few weeks I found that I did, in fact, belong. I even became proud to belong. I learned that whether you are a suburban mom, a factory worker, or a soap"
2005:NF "around, than the average inmate. # The InnerChange cheerleaders simply ignored the other 102 participants who dropped out, were kicked out, or got early parole and did n't finish. Naturally, the non-graduates did worse than the control group. If you select out the winners, you leave mostly losers. # Kleiman's final judgment is that '' probably no one was actually lying; they were just believing, and repeating as a fact, what they wanted to believe. "" But perhaps Colson's loyal troops, like the Catholic Jesuits in the seventeenth century, used some complex reasoning ("
2001:MAG "the border to expand his horizons. Next stop, Cuba? # MARGARET MITCHELL Tara saved! Federal judge says novel retelling GWTW from slave's p.o.v. violates copyright # MEL BROOKS Producers gets raves; show sold out . Who knew Hitler was a gold mine, besides the Swiss? # &; LOSERS # ARIEL SHARON Invades and withdraws from Gaza twice in 2 days. In orout? Rand McNally needs to know # JEB BUSH W. rebuffs bro's plea to nix Florida offshore drilling leases. Should have let recount continue # THE WB Rival UPN spirits away hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
2001:MAG "based on transactions that its manager made earlier in the year, and those distributions are taxable. # But even if you do n't have any winning stocks in this bear-market year -- or any that you want to sell -- it can make good tax sense to sell at least some of your losers. # First, you should consider taking as much as $3,000 in capital losses-- the maximum amount you can use to offset ordinary income. If you're in the 27.5% tax bracket, this move can save you $825 -- or more if your state offers deductions. # Next you should"
2001:MAG "cleanup and tax savings. # The first question to ask yourself is whether there are other investments that are likely to grow faster, or balance your portfolio better, than the ones that you own. Often the answer is yes, and in those cases you should try to sell winners and losers in equal proportions to minimize your tax bill. '' You can take the lossestoday, still remain in the market and use those losses to offset current capital gains, "" says financial planner Altair Gobo of U.S. Financial Services in Fairfield, N.J. # Remember that with a mutual fund, you"
2006:MAG "World Series rings without the apparent capacity for scoring high on any physical or intelligence tests, may have said it best: "" Half this game is 90 percent mental. "" According to Marv Levy, it's the percentage of the game that's mental that makes the difference between winners and losers at the professional level. '' By the time a player reaches the NFL,"" he explains, "" it's really no longer a question of talent. All the players have tremendous talent. If there's one thing I want to know about a player, it's how he will"
2006:MAG "ended the rule of Yugoslav President SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC and led to his jailing for alleged war crimes. His trial was nearing its end when he died of a heart attack. He was buried last week in Serbia. # Who wants to die for Slobodan Milosevic? He is one of the great losers of history. He failed to hold together the former Yugoslavia, and he failedto build in its place a Greater Serbia. In the past 10 years, he has launched four wars and lost three... As Europe's most disruptive dictator since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he bears"