Word: winner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year's winner, though, could well be next year's loser. In 1982 Coleco Industries, pushed forward by its successful video-game machine, led the N.Y.S.E., going from 6% to 36%. In 1983 Coleco's stock zoomed further, to 65, but then it ran into delays and glitches with its new Adam computer. The hit of 1982 ended...
Next week the Horse of the Year will be proclaimed by the Daily Racing Form, the National Turf Writers and the Thoroughbred Racing Associations. It is a three-horse race: the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Slew O'Gold, the French filly All Along and Devil's Bag. Only Secretariat ever won it at two, when the older candidates were weaker. So some voters may insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse...
...Heisman winner was Jim Plunkett of San Jose, Calif, and Stanford, a blind news-vendor's son, quiet-spoken but strong-armed, as husky as a linebacker. In today's terms, he was not only John Elway, the top draft choice, but also Dan Marino, the rookie of the year. The Heisman runner-up or, the way he looked at it, the "loser," was Joe Theismann of South River, N.J., and Notre Dame, a mouthy wraith. He still says, "The classic line of the No. 2 guy is that it was enough just to be considered. That...
...seemed promising: for two whole days, the eight contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination would stop taking potshots at one another and instead travel together across the U.S., preaching party unity and raising money. The proceeds, an anticipated $2.4 million, would go to the campaign chest of the eventual winner...
...margins. (Fifty-one heart-and-holly symbols appear on one bikini panty.) Next week, the reader who comes up with the exact number of True-loves, cats and symbols will be awarded a $10,000 gift certificate plus a $10,000 donation by Filene's to the winner's favorite charity. Nearly half a million catalogues have been distributed (20,000 of them for $1 each in stores); the contest is expected to draw more than 10,000 entries. Truelove is not blind...