"Mr. Sarkozy has bet he could replay the 2007 election, " said Emiliano Grossman of Sciences Po University in Paris.
So it's a fair bet he won't be waving an England flag as Roy Hodgson's men begin their European Championship campaign.
The big, expensive bet he made by buying Dutch drug maker Organon is looking all the more important (see "Fix It, Fred").
It's also a safe bet he's the only person running a major fashion company from a home office in the Sea Pines Resort.
When Mr Simon won his bet he was able to say that rising population was not a problem: increased demand attracts investment, producing more.
He is with me wherever I go, and you can bet he is by my side every step of the way as I conquer every continent, 26.2 miles at a time.
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Instead, when he loses a bet, he buys back the option at a loss.
In fact, he was so confident of collecting on his bet that he let Ehrlich pick any five commodities he liked -- and any future date at which the bet would take effect.
Doing so many trials at once is a big bet, he says, but it is a rational bet, given the promising early results.
Mr. PHILLIPS: I would say it's a very fair bet that he would lose it.
After that, though, it is a good bet that he has his eye on national office.
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Trying to transcend our own imperfections, rather than eradicating those of others, is the best bet, he argues.
Or that it is really "her" laptop, I bet money he is the one who paid for it!
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Rosen bet that he could build a business on unfussy, well-made pants and shirts with no auteur behind them, and he won big.
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Although it is far from clear who will be chosen to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, it is a pretty safe bet that he won't be English.
When Blau found out that the Shin Bet knew he lied, and still illegally possesses thousands of classified documents, he decided not to return to Israel.
So when he offered to bail out the U.S. bond insurance industry on Tuesday, it seemed a good bet that he was proposing a better deal for Berkshire Hathaway than for the troubled firms that might need his help.
In other words, Loeb is betting against William Ackman, the hedge fund manager who took to a New York stage in December to announce a massive short bet that he said consisted of 20 million shares against Herbalife, which he called a Pyramid scheme.
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Soon he bet it on a real estate business he formed with Collins, a former Raytheon (nyse: RTN - news - people ) executive 18 years his senior.
He bet heavily on two frothy telecoms firms in the late 1990s tech bubble, which went bust.
They still had bands at the Corn Exchange, but he bet you couldn't spit on the floor any more.
His bet is that he will be able to get a similar property at a lower price sometime in the next few years.
"My guess is that it was a bet, " he said.
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Wiberg of ATV acknowledges the idea then consisted mostly of old research and a big potential market but says he bet on the team's ability to get results fast.
But the reason was that he bet on people.
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