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Last year's winner, though, could well be next year's loser. In 1982 Coleco Industries, pushed forward by its successful video-game machine, led the N.Y.S.E., going from 6% to 36%. In 1983 Coleco's stock zoomed further, to 65, but then it ran into delays and glitches with its new Adam computer. The hit of 1982 ended...
...national Presidential campaign is heating up. Taking their cue from Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart, Reubin Askew and John Glenn team up for an evening on national TV, as do Alan Cranston and George McGovern. Askew is the big loser in this strategy, since a hefty proportion of viewers take him as Glenn's running mate...
...Democratic National Convention begins, amid hoopla, but proceedings are disrupted on the second day by the nationally disseminated announcement that Harvard's K-School will take on as tenured professors not just the Big Loser but all six josers of the Democratic Party nomination. Upon that news, both of the still up challenged front runners, Glenn and Mondale, Suddenly drop out of the race...
Other candidates follow suit, leaving only Hart, who says, "Those K-School folk aren't as smart as I am I'll stay right here." Allison, undaunted, amends the program to include the eventual loser of the November election, observing, " Flexibility is firmness...
...quiet-spoken but strong-armed, as husky as a linebacker. In today's terms, he was not only John Elway, the top draft choice, but also Dan Marino, the rookie of the year. The Heisman runner-up or, the way he looked at it, the "loser," was Joe Theismann of South River, N.J., and Notre Dame, a mouthy wraith. He still says, "The classic line of the No. 2 guy is that it was enough just to be considered. That is garbage. I may have said the same thing, but deep down inside, I didn't want...