Word: loser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week the rival camp of front runner Bob Dole was calling Wilson "the first loser of the Iowa caucuses, still five months away." Wilson's campaign was in deep financial trouble. His poll numbers were mired in low digits. Worst of all, his organization was reeling from an internal feud between his top lieutenants. Asked who was in charge of the operation at one point last week, a veteran aide shrugged, "If you think of someone, let me know...
Regardless of how the suit is resolved, the clear loser will be Tepperman's stricken wife, the victim of an equal-opportunity disease that shows no regard for bottom lines or other totems of corporate life. The winners, of course, are those who enjoy the intoxicating spectacle of millionaires and billionaires wallowing in the mud. The trial is expected to last a month...
...contest is quickly shaping up as a race between a wounded Democratic incumbent and a Republican who is a two-time presidential loser of advancing years and whose record is scrambling to get in synch with the right-wing fervor of his party. Unhappiness with these options could yield a search for a new candidate...
Listed among New Era's creditors were Rockefeller ($11.4 million), Simon ($6.5 million) and Boone, although the largest individual loser was the Rev. Glenn Blossom of Dresher, Pennsylvania ($27.5 million), who was using the funds to establish a seminary. All in all, New Era claimed $551 million in liabilities against just $80 million in assets...
...Information centers around Richard Tull, a ridiculously obscure, soon-to-be ex-novelist. Richard is of that most quintessentially English brand of heroes: he is a loser. (In fact, the first installations of Amis' novel appeared in an issue of Granta magazine called "Losers.") To some extent, the author embodies, in Richard the stereotypical English hatred of success. His (anti) hero is an unmitigated failure whose humiliations Amis delights in recounting...