With top Republicans and Democrats focused on the issue, immigration reform faces its best odds in years.
Colleague Monte Burke gives the best odds to the Miami Dolphins, who are also favored by sports betting websites.
Since options is a zero-sum endeavor, it was the sellers who would seem to have the best odds of making money.
Last year's big winner was the Cleveland Cavaliers, which won the first pick despite having the second best odds of getting it.
Results from the most recent nut allergy studies are helping doctors predict which kids have the best odds of beating common food allergies.
If I write stuff that I believe will be useful, and write it as clearly and engagingly as I know how, that gives me the best odds of reaching lots of people.
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The Eurasian brown bear has disappeared from much of Europe, but in this mountain range that separates Slovakia and Poland, you have some of the best odds of seeing the magnificent animal in the wild.
The odds were best with a donor of his ethnicity, and there were few South Asians in the national bone-marrow database.
So, we see a lot of the grown-ups at odds with what is best for kids.
Those additional perspectives greatly increase the odds of finding the best candidates.
What were the odds that the Giants best pass rushing defensive end would miss seven games, their best overall defensive end would never play wholly at full strength and they would still maybe have the most dynamic defensive end in the NFC?
If you and your spouse have stayed happily married into your golden years, meeting the usual hurdles of married life, there is one issue you may not have prepared for: married couples today are increasingly at odds about when is best for either or both of them to retire.
While Ladbrokes stopped taking Oscar bets last week -- "The favorites are all going to win, " says Clifton -- the company set odds in the categories of best picture, actor and actress.
Armed with those answers, they stand the best chance of beating some fairly dire odds: Studies estimate that just two-thirds of all start-ups survive the first two years, and less than half make it to the fourth.
"My odds of getting access to the best people in a VC's network go up the smaller number of deals they have, " he says.
But with neither being full-time spinners, and Tendulkar and Laxman being among the best players of slow bowling around, the odds were stacked in India's favour.
Is it wrong to relegate one of the best phones on the planet to my stash of odds and ends?
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This means the odds heavily favor the five movies that received Best Director nominations.
"The odds of success are 50-50 at best, " says Harry Tracy, a neuropsychologist who publishes the newsletter Neuroinvestment.
Jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding upset boy wonder Justin Bieber for Best New Artist (according to pre-ceremony Vegas odds, Spalding was the longest shot to win).
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If this were the case, he might now be offering his own point of view, which could, conceivably, be slightly at odds with what he then perceived as the best position for his client.
Small school achieves heavy lift: As the smallest middle school in a field of 57 competitors that were mostly high schools, odds were against the St Vincent de Paul BEST Robotics Team from Theodore, Alabama .
Now that the bet has been taken, the best onlookers can do is hope that it somehow beats the odds.
Though everyone is entitled to their own opinion, military officers should know that theirs are best kept private... particularly if they are at odds with the chain of command.
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Where ports and hardware keys are concerned, HTC's done its best to keep the distraction to a minimum, carving those odds and ends out of the very same plastic as the chassis.
Brent showed me that the best people in this world never give up their hope no matter the odds.
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