Word: loserness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Murdoch Sr. had bought STAR from Hong Kong's Richard Li in 1995 for $950 million. A perpetual money loser, it initially looked like News Corp.'s overpriced albatross. STAR has no shortage of eyeballs?it beams its satellite signal to 300 million people?yet it has virtually no control over subscribers on the ground. Instead, it is heavily dependent on advertising revenue. But STAR was a first mover in these vast new markets. And it was central to Murdoch's vision of constructing a global satellite network?a dream foiled recently by his failed bid for DirecTV...
...sense for Major League Baseball to be in markets that generate insufficient local revenues to justify the investment in the franchise," said commissioner Bud Selig. Minnesota brings in $25 million locally, near the bottom. The league's proposed solution to this Twins shortfall: hand Pohlad (and the other loser) from $125 million to $150 million to close up shop...
...with stars and stripes and brave rhetoric about "these challenging times," but the elections proved that Sept. 11 changed politics less than those trappings might suggest. Viciousness took a two-week break after the attacks but returned in full force before Election Day (even in New York City, where loser Mark Green set the low mark with an ad alleging Michael Bloomberg had pressured a woman to have an abortion). The candidates with the most talent and money tended to win, and Tip O'Neill's old line about all politics being local held up once again...
...loser in the election, Althea Garrison (R), claimed just over 2% of the votes. Garrison is a regular candidate on the Boston political scene, known for changing loyalties from Democrat to Independent to Republican and changing sex from male to female...
...networks to admit at four in the morning that the race was too close to call, that we were in a statistical dead heat and the outcome would have to await, at the very least, an automatic recount. Ever since, Gore has been cast in the role of sore loser whose congressional support could evaporate in an instant, a supplicant trying to win in court what he didn't win at the ballot box. And every day the media persist in calling the race anew. A reporter will read the latest polls showing that a majority of the American people...