Internal squabbling has quashed its efforts to marry its hardware and software, however, and it refuses to abandon one of its biggest money-losers, its television business, which has bled red ink for eight consecutive years.
With its shabby milieu, its desperate bunch of losers, its graphic scenes of bad sex and the Castro's defiling of a rival's Manero-style white suit, the film is both oddly fascinating and repellent.
There would seem to be no stopping this movement constitutionally, since that document -- while it specifically dictates how many electoral votes each state will have -- nonetheless leaves the control of electoral votes to the states: In the abstract, a state could allocate all its votes to the loser of its popular vote, or to Santa Claus, if the voters would put up with that.
"Breakthrough" uses the same template as "The Biggest Loser" and its spinoff, "Losing It With Jillian" (both on NBC), only instead of dropping pounds, Mr. Robbins's clients shed fears and inhibitions.
Its weight-loss reality show, "The Biggest Loser," delivered its highest ratings of the season with an estimated 10.11 million viewers.
Pittsburgh seemed hungry to send Miami home a loser in its final Big East game before it moves to the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[Germany] Every financial crisis has its losers, but it also has its winners.
The loser viewed its ghastly sacrifice as proof of the gallantry of the "Southern way of life".
The technology sector, the fund industry's biggest loser, saved its worst for last, with the average fund down 36.16 percent in the fourth quarter alone.
