Word: winner
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Trading stock options is a high-risk business. That is why Jack Keller of Winnetka, Ill., took up the trade: compared with his previous career as a professional poker player, being a market maker looked low key. Keller, the No. 2 U.S. money winner at poker -- $300,000 this year -- has traded a seat at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for one on the Chicago Board Options Exchange...
...interrupt this magazine for an important political bulletin. The bellwether Cognoscenti Caucus is now over, and the results are pouring into Election Central. In a few moments we will find out the winner of the coveted "Big Mo" Award. But first, some background...
...still have goals, tremendous goals." At the diving nationals in April, Louganis tasted second place for the first time in a while. "But second place isn't losing," he said. "If I learn something from a competition, I can be second to last and still come out a winner...
...elections last May produced an overwhelming victory for President Corazon Aquino, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile denounced the balloting as a fraud. Calling the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history," he vowed not to take his seat in the 24-member Senate even if declared a winner...
Enrile seems to have changed his mind. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the independent Commission on Elections to proclaim him the winner of the contested 24th Senate seat. Some commission members had been criticized for delaying a final decision to keep out Enrile. Declared the victor: "The decision is a triumph of justice and fairness...