Still, think of all the good I could have done in the world as an efficient and effective conflict resolver rather than an all or nothing, win-lose, my way or the highway, litigator.
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"The more you risk, the more you have the chance to win--or lose, " Bich said before his death in 1994.
Besides, the point of comparing their performance with America is not that Canadians are in a win-or-lose race with a neighbour that happens to have one of the most dynamic economies in the world.
Change the assumptions behind this weird system, and everything else, including pay and the heads-I-win, tails-you-lose culture, will move too.
Tourism officials haven't had time to poll hotels about booking levels for next weekend -- the weekend before Mardi Gras Day and typically the season's busiest -- but win or lose, the city will be celebrating.
The bloc -- which was forecast to lose some ground but still win -- earned only 31 in this election, according to exit polling from the daily newspaper Haaretz, a sharp drop.
"I had nothing to lose - or win - so I'm driving for the team, " said the Finn, whose title defence came to an end in Japan last week.
The lose-to-win theory is fueled by a lonely fact: just one undefeated team, those '72 Dolphins with Bob Griese and Larry Csonka, has ever won a Super Bowl.
With Virginia, he can lose Florida and still win re-election.
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But there's no evidence he can thrive alongside his co-conspirator Carmelo Anthony, and win or lose in Game 3, the Knicks are assumed to be early playoff road kill.
Therefore, I presume many tax-haven forex dealers may lose forex trading business to CFTC-registered RFEDs who will be happy to win back this business.
Even more startling, the Capitals historically are more likely to lose than win a series after taking a 2-0 lead.
The two evened at 4-4, Wozniacki clawing back from a 0-40 deficit to win the next game, only to lose the next three and the set to Clijsters.
You don't think that her prospects, Martha Coakley's, are better now than they were two or three days ago and there's more likelihood the President can be productive in this trip and not suffer any negative consequences if she doesn't lose -- if she doesn't win?
Short-term greedy people almost always lose much more than they win, certainly over the longer term.
If Mr Bush were to lose it, he would need to win most of the mid-west (not impossible, as he is doing well there).
They have no established broking business to lose and the Internet could help them win valuable customers from the full-service brokerage firms.
He isn't afraid to lose--and he'll find a way to come back and win.
Delaney's side lost 25-14 to Doncaster, and they now need to win at Exeter and hope London Welsh lose to Doncaster, to reach the Championship final four.
If moderate Republicans in Congress follow the reform-minded companies and the American public, then ExxonMobil will lose and TSCA reform will win.
The side lost 6-0 to Chelsea in their opening game of the campaign but recovered to lose only twice in their first nine games, which included a 3-2 win at Arsenal and a fightback to draw 2-2 at Manchester United.
In light of the fact that MSSB knew full well that, as a non-signatory, the terms of the Protocol were inapplicable to Fidelity, the heads I win, tails you lose posture adopted by MSSB with regard to its selective use of the terms of the Protocol was particularly opprobrious.
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If higher expenditure on public services comes to be seen as payday for public-sector workers, Labour will lose the reputation for prudent economic management which it struggled so hard to win in its early, parsimonious, years.
While not everyone fights over a serious legal matter -- the better part of combatants just do so for sport or because they're drunk -- those who do so are bound by the results of the match and are generally satisfied by them win or lose (although there have been occasional, impromptu "appeals").
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