When the other company, Ace, dropped out of the bidding, the lawsuit said, a Marsh executive encouraged a third company, CNA, in Chicago, to submit what would be a losing bid to make the transaction appear to involve competition.
"I believe that South Carolinians are either going to center in to pick one conservative, or by default we're going to send a moderate on to the nomination," he said, warning that would be a losing hand to play against Mr. Obama.
We're talking about changing a few cars this way, and assume Fiat is not planning to import underbodies or engines that would be a losing proposition with today's devalued dollar.
Going any further, she says, would be a losing game for Kim and North Korea.
You would think it would be a losing proposition for an out-of-towner to come into a city full of steakhouses and open yet another one.
Kristina L. Houser, a dietitian, who was one of the researchers, said a more direct approach -- say, substituting vegetable lasagna for hamburgers -- would be a losing battle.
