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...National Football League quarterback has thrown more passes, completed more, for more yards or touchdowns. Still Tarkenton is regarded vaguely as a loser and alibier. Had the Vikings made good on even one of their chances, would he have been left at the door last week when Roger Staubach and Joe Namath (the league's 61st-ranked passer) stepped into the Hall of Fame? To the victors go the spoils...
...Michael S. Dukakis, up for reelection to a third term in '86, has perceptibly moved to the center, proposing a tax cut and making overtures to the business community. No one expects any of the possible Republican challengers--led by two-time senatorial loser Raymond Shamie and White House official Andrew H. Card--will topple the Duke...
...N.Y.S.E.'s largest loser of 1984 was Colorado's Storage Technology, a computer-equipment manufacturer, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October. Investors also became discouraged with Western Union when it failed to recoup quickly its investment in new services like electronic mail. Hesston, a Kansas-based farm-equipment maker whose stock was among the best performers in 1983, suffered last year from depressed sales. Cincinnati's Omnicare, a hospital supplier, fell into disfavor after an accounting adjustment cut its profits. Williams Electronics of Chicago was zapped by declining interest in its coin-operated video games...
...SOREST LOSER. Olympian Mary Decker falling down and not letting up on Zola Budd...
...stood firmly behind its newest and littlest computer. Said Vice President Philip Estridge in April: "Reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated." Now it seems that Estridge was right. After a quick series of engineering and marketing changes, IBM appears to have turned its loser into a winner. At stores around the U.S., the PCjr is suddenly one of the fastest-selling computers on the shelves, often outperforming cheaper, game-oriented machines like the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. "This may be an industry first," says Stephen Guty, editor of McGraw-Hill Computer Books. "No product has ever...