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...chances that the bill could be a revenue loser. The President has told us that it cannot lose revenue. He doesn't want it to gain revenue, but he doesn't want it to lose revenue. So we've been working very hard to make sure it is revenue neutral. If we end up (in Congress) with something that is unacceptable, I suppose the President would do whatever he thinks would keep it from becoming...
George Herman Ruth would have been a loser; Babe Ruth will never be forgotten...
...does The Honeymooners remain so appealing? "I have two answers, and they're very simple," says Gleason, now 69. "First, they're funny. And second, the audience likes the people in The Honeymooners. Once you get an audience to like you, you're home." Ralph is a loser with hopes of being a winner--someone, in other words, everybody can identify with. Before each episode ends, his bubble always bursts. "It's the story of my life," he says in a rare moment of self-awareness. "I could always make a great start, but I never finished. I never stuck...
...Harvard baseball team had swept through its first six Greater Boston League games by a combined score of 63-9, with Brandeis, a 20-9 loser, the only team to tally any runs against Crimson pitching...
...same time, we should not give the impression that our approach is almost completely military. We have not given enough emphasis to our economic power. Now, I know from my own experience that foreign aid is the most unpopular damn thing in the world. It is a loser politically. We have to make it a winner...