Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Anywhere else, such setbacks would not harm someone's political reputation for long. But Hong Kong is such a can-do town of winners that just a couple of reversals can be magnified to give you a loser's image. Tsang's supporters say his retreats are a sign of pragmatism. "He is bold and determined," says Choy So-yuk, a Legislative Council member from the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). "In areas like West Kowloon, he knows when to give up when facing public opposition." Yet for an official who declared...
...mind Harvey Haddix, a good but unexceptional National League hurler, who one day in 1959 turned in arguably the greatest pitching performance in baseball history, twirling 12 perfect innings—36 up, 36 down—before dropping the decision, 1-0, in the 13th. Few remember a loser, and Haddix’s remarkable afternoon has been largely consigned to the margins of baseball lore. Martin’s heroics may end up similarly and unjustifiably overlooked...
...Hour News Hour” changes this dynamic. When humor, the mechanism for dealing with bias news, becomes biased in itself, then the biggest loser is the truth...
...from Donald Tsang. Also, this is not really a free election. It has always been the accepted position that Beijing wants Donald Tsang to continue in office. So people have the mindset: "Well, Donald Tsang is going to win. I want to vote for the winner, not the loser...
...middle school), moves back to Buffalo. Inspired to change his life, Glen gets a job as a video-store clerk, befriends Alison’s 14-year-old son, and decides that one day he will marry her. The fun, of course, is discovering how this 32 year-old loser becomes the ultimate winner: narrator Glen asserts that by 2006 he will marry Alison and become the richest man in Buffalo. Blitt has similarly transformed himself from borderline failure to commercial Hollywood success. “When I would go out to dinner, I would just always have so much...