Word: defeatism
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...nothing did Ted Turner earn the nickname Captain Courageous in his sailing days. As skipper of the yacht Courageous, which won the 1977 America's Cup, he had a knack for snatching victory from sure defeat. In the equally competitive and treacherous world of business, the cable-TV king showed his spunk and resilience once again last week. Just as Turner admitted that his quixotic attempt to take over CBS had capsized, he announced two bold new ventures for the burgeoning Turner Broadcasting System (TBS). The Atlanta-based company (1984 revenues: $282 million) will buy the venerable MGM/UA company...
...deal unless both houses of Congress voted it down within 30 days. With just such a prospect beginning to appear likely, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana engineered the March 1 delay as a compromise. Most legislators, however, saw the move as a humiliating Administration defeat...
...draining record of 40 draws. Then World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, a close friend of Karpov's, abruptly stopped play because, he said, players, officials and organizers were exhausted. The real reason, many insiders charged, was that the champion was physically and psychologically frazzled, ripe for a humiliating defeat. An enraged Kasparov shook his fist: "They are trying to deprive me of my chance!" Later he sneeringly told the German magazine Der Spiegel: "Karpov views the title 'world champion' as a natural prefix to his family name...
...needed love and men," she says, "as soon as I fell in love with one, I would be afraid of losing him, and I didn't understand why the anxiety didn't go to sleep. I came to see it as jealousy, a sense of a priori defeat whenever there's a triangle of any kind...
...after last weekend’s disappointing split—the loss to Columbia was the Crimson’s first league defeat since April 21, 2002—a welcome showing...