Word: underdog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a winning campaign right now," hecontinued. "I've always been the underdog...
...hard for us to believe that they were that good," said captain Andrew Lundquist. "In some ways we felt like we were the underdog but we weren't intimidated, especially playing at home...
Feingold has done his best to take advantage of his iconoclastic campaign. He calls it "an experiment in American government," and has taken to pronouncing himself "the big underdog," targeted by a money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about...
Olshan explained that the Yankees are like the Knicks in that New Yorkers love to support an underdog team...
...Lucky for Jobs that in his business, the spirit of the underdog is alive and well. Microsoft begins an antitrust trial Monday in which it's almost unanimously cast as the heavy, and as if to prove it Bill Gates was hissed by some software customers Wednesday morning in the middle of defending his company's right to play hardball. The Apple cult is as emotional these days as ever, and Jobs -- who with characteristic flourish delivered the happy news to a packed house near Cupertino while the markets were still open -- still has his reputation as a visionary...