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...winner would make the playoffs, and the loser would have to pray that the NCAA Tournament selection committee look favorably upon them...
...every unheralded champion, there is a shocked, defeated loser...
...trading, to dump billions of dollars' worth of bond futures and thereby drive down the prices of the underlying bonds. The worst fallout occurred in Europe, where bond prices plunged and interest rates, which move in the opposite direction of prices, climbed about one full percentage point. The biggest loser amid the global turmoil was legendary Wall Street investor Michael Steinhardt, who as of last week has lost $1 billion since the beginning of the year, or a quarter of the funds under his management. Another big-name investor, George Soros, got caught in the February mayhem, which people inside...
...anywhere. A Texas manufacturer with a $1 million fixed-rate loan who suspected that interest rates would soon fall could swap the loan with a Michigan company that had taken out a floating-rate note but was worried that rates were headed higher. The Texas firm would be the loser if rates did rise, since after the swap it would hold the floating-rate note that called for larger interest payments. "The fundamental advantage of derivatives is that they let you buy the risks you want and hedge the risks you don't want," says Columbia's Greenwald, "and that...
...cruel roulette of life, Waneta Hoyt seemed to be an especially tragic loser. Nearly 30 years ago, she lost her first child, Erik, suddenly and inexplicably. The mother tearfully told doctors that she found him barely breathing in his crib and could not revive him. He was three months old. Waneta's second child, James, was a little over two when, according to his mother, he called out after breakfast one morning and expired. A daughter, Julie, died at 48 days; her mother was feeding the child when the infant choked, turned blue and died. Another daughter, Molly, died...