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...Atlantic City project is not Trump's only undertaking in New Jersey. Last September he bought the Generals of the new United States Football League. A loser during its first season in 1983, the team has won five and lost one so far this year. His Generals, says Trump, have "now become the No. 1 story in the whole of sports." Hyperbole like that is part of the Trump style. He is dreaming of the ultimate contest, a "Galaxy Bowl," mightier than the Super Bowl, that would pit the top N.F.L. team against the best U.S.F.L...
...more than $1 million. Even when awards are reversed on appeal, cases sometimes cost more than $1 million to defend. Indeed, journalists contend that many libel cases are filed in part to harass the press, and some publishers have urged adoption of Britain's system of making the loser in a suit pay the winner's legal fees...
...almost impossible to take them back. Writes Samuel Brittan, a British economic commentator, in his new book The Role and Limits of Government: "Each of us wants the benefit of services while transferring the cost to some other group; we evade the problem of deciding who should be the loser...
...melting away at the door. After his five- or six-hour meal, he looks for a place to read, which he does until the morning, and then sleeps until the early evening. How did he get this way? The other folks on the street shrug and say, "Loser...
...CASUAL conversations, Joseph certainly does not seem like a loser. He is extremely well-read and intelligent; he hasn't lost his mind or his health--only his chance to be a part of mainstream society. Joseph's hardworking mother brought him up in Albuquerque, N.M. Had his high school offered him an education that measured up to his abilities, Joseph might have gone to college. Instead, he began reading on his own, skimping on his studies...