Even if you beat the odds and win, your tax problem could be a doozey.
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That same steely determination and quick thinking would certainly allow Schulze to beat the odds again.
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The Bounty Hunter, which stars Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, also beat the odds.
In Vegas too there are few winners but the players keep coming back hoping to beat the odds.
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Despite this, Meltzer and his wife beat the odds, staying married 29 years.
Rather, they calculate the risks of a situation and will take the risk if they think they can beat the odds.
Given that his cancer was a single, small tumor caught early and surgically removed successfully, Jobs seems like a candidate to beat the odds and live a long life.
Lewis and his staff beat the odds by melding comic books, classical mythology and modern production techniques, and by fighting a few demons of their own on the way.
Marquis Cabrera, a former foster youth, is the Founder and Chairman of Foster Skills a social enterprise dedicated to empowering foster children to beat the odds and achieve life success.
Central to the money management business is convincing clients that they will beat the odds despite the fact that decades of data show it is virtually impossible to consistently do so.
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"With other water-soaked smartphones, consumers instantly move into MacGyver mode attempting to beat the odds with dry rice, Ziploc bags and other home remedies that rarely work, " said Andre Smith, vice president-Boost Mobile.
And the story goes that after these heroic citizens and soldiers beat the odds and turned back the invaders, General Zaragoza found time to sit down and write a brief note to the war minister.
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Sixty percent of myeloma patients die within five years, but Giusti beat the odds, living for a decade and a half through multiple rounds of drug therapy and a bone marrow transplant from her twin sister.
Combining archive footage with new interviews with band members Michael Bradley, Billy Doherty and brothers John O'Neill and Damian O'Neill, the documentary tells how a group of teenagers beat the odds to become an improbable pop phenomenon whose hits still resonate today.
We all remember the spectacular fall of companies like Pets.com, but few recall that innovative companies like Amazon (whose share prices took a terrific beating when the bubble popped) went on to beat the odds and reach share prices that beat their dot-com heights.
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Of course, for the Scots to clinch a coveted play-off spot, it's highly likely they will first need to overcome the odds and beat the Dutch at Hampden.
We help some of the poorest children on the planet beat tremendous odds and make it into one of the most exclusive university systems in the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT.
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Even worse, even if an investor happened to choose the best from the small minority of those who did beat the market in those individual years, the odds are high that they would seriously under-perform over the subsequent period.
Thanks at least in part to luck, Genentech has beat the drug industry's dismal odds--and thrived.
Japan, who upset the odds when they beat favorites Brazil at the 1996 Atlanta Games, could have extended their lead as Spain chased a goal, but Nagai and Hotaru Yamaguchi both failed to convert easy chances.
Fiorina--who still has work to do on her first priority, fixing HP--must figure she's the lucky one who will beat near-impossible odds.
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