Word: suckering
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...registers the despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude. He's wonderful at portraying someone who's just been sucker-punched by fate...
When the Celtics first came out, at $18.50 a "unit" (another name for a share), the Boston papers scoffed and said it was a sucker play because the team was worth maybe $5 a unit at the time. But the fans are having the last scoff because all along they've got a 7% to 13% annual tax-sheltered distribution, and even without Larry Bird the value of the team is catching up to the original price...
...POKER JOKE GOES LIKE THIS: If you look around the table and you can't spot the sucker, the sucker is probably...
...while the 12 additional people who might be hired next year by a computer maker to put together more PCs for export to Mexico have no idea that might happen. Then too, there is a vague feeling that the U.S. has often let itself be played for a sucker in trade deals. Perot has harped on that, charging that "dumb" negotiations in the 1980s cost millions of U.S. jobs. The Administration did not help itself by choosing initially to fight on narrow economic grounds (read: jobs) rather than invoke the foreign-policy considerations that actually are more important. It also...
...IPOs were typically underperforming the S&P by 20%. Michaely explains that IPO prices are usually propped up by their lead underwriters in the early stages with positive reports known as "booster shots." But these shots also tend to coincide with heavy selling by insiders. "The buyer, or the sucker," he says, "is usually the small investor...