Word: lose
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Instead all we've heard is howling. Last week MCI Communications was baying at Wall Street, explaining that it will lose $800 million this year trying to bust into local phone service with nothing to show for it. MCI blamed its loss on the intransigence of Baby Bell operating companies in complying with the law. Baby Bells such as BellSouth have been wailing that regulators won't let them into long-distance markets and that the long-distance companies don't want to compete anyway...
Martin Lawrence, as an out-of-work electronics whiz in the new comedy Nothing to Lose, meets co-star Tim Robbins when he jumps into Robbins' car, brandishes a pistol and demands money. But, he later explains in a tone of aggrieved dignity, "I don't steal. I just dabble in future used goods." It is the art of the con man--and of the movie actor--to fool others so exquisitely that he may be fooling himself. So admirers of the popular actor-comedian must hope, and detractors will wonder, when Lawrence defends himself against a flurry of criminal...
Helms spokesperson Marc Thiessen described the governor's attack as both self-serving and self-defeating. "If the governor wants a fight, I guess he is prepared to lose," Thiessen told the Boston Globe...
What will happen to those who lose SSI? Many will have to give up treatments ranging from speech training to medicine. Others may end up homeless, since SSI families are poor and the check is a large percentage of household income. And some families may be torn apart. Organizations like the Arc, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens, say they have been inundated with calls from parents afraid they will have to give up their children to foster care or institutionalization. "People tell us this is what's holding their family together," says Arc spokesman Marty Ford. "If you pull...
...From a distance, the crescent-shaped bite made by Tyson's incisors is barely noticeable. And from close up, neither is Holyfield's resentment, if he feels any. He has no plans to sue Tyson, who is facing penalties from all directions. "His attitude," says Holyfield, "caused him to lose everything he'd gathered...