That is why John McCain, the apparent big winner in New Hampshire, will soon prove just a momentary nuisance to George Bush, while Bill Bradley, the four-point loser, will be a long-term spoiler for Al Gore.
Of its components, 280 advanced and 203 declined, the biggest point-losers being technology companies like Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, Micron Technology and Yahoo, though some regained part of the lost ground after the normal 4 p.m. close.
The count includes only cities with populations of 65,000 or more, and has a margin of error that makes it difficult to declare a winner — or, perhaps more to the point, a loser.
Because you have a life, and you realise that at some point, some loser will do it for you, punctuating it with some of the more obscure videos that you may not have seen before.
If a fight goes the distance, however, the winner is decided by a panel of three judges, using boxing's 10-point must system (the winner of the round gets 10 points; the loser is awarded nine or fewer points).
(In boxing, the winner of a typical round generally earns ten points; the loser earns nine).
At this point the losers are the Popular party's Mariano Rajoy and the Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias.
"Insurers point to losers as evidence that the market is failing and, through fear tactics, they hope to cut back on the protection designed to help consumers find insurance".
The league may consider eliminating the "loser point," or switching to the system -- 3 points for winning in regulation, 2 for winning in overtime or in a shootout, 1 for losing in overtime or in a shootout and nothing for losing in regulation -- used by the rest of the world.
Complicating matters for the Rangers is what Sabres Coach Lindy Ruff calls the loser point.
