Word: sucker
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...wrong. Playing sports can teach important lessons about teamwork and striving, but it offers a career to only a relative handful of athletes. And until we put sports back into perspective, we're playing a sucker's game...
...Vegas casinos offer a dizzying number of propositions for betting on the Game. Here is just a small sample--yes, a small sample--of the "props" for which you can plunk down your money. The variety may offer new meaning to the saying "There's a sucker born every minute...
...fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that your comrades are not so cohesive as before. You lower your head and try to power through the back-stretch. You refuse to become a sidelined sucker. You know you can run this race. But you can't. Midway through the straightaway, you hit the wall...
...tobacco's top ambassador in Washington, who controls thousands if not millions of dollars in political contributions. In the past 18 months, Republicans have pocketed $1.9 million from tobacco. (Democrats got $300,000.) Barbour makes Roger Tamraz, the star of last week's campaign-finance hearings, look like a sucker. For the $300,000 Tamraz proudly admitted spending for access, he got only a few minutes with the President at one of his six social visits, and he never nailed the help he needed for his pipeline. Barbour, in contrast, got actual results. Neither Lott nor Barbour would comment...
...says. "I was living in San Antonio, Texas, where I knew no one. I guess I was lonely." Right there is a combination that screams "victim." The American Association of Retired Persons (A.A.R.P.) figures that while anyone 60 or older is likely to be on at least one "mooch" (sucker) list, a woman 75 or older is virtually guaranteed to be. Like Downs, such women are often widows, lonely and suffering from ills that make them desperate for someone to talk...