In return for his agreement to do so, the Shin Bet agreed not to prosecute him for illegally possessing classified materials.
While this secular bet will not be settled for some time, MSFT should get a cyclical boost late this year with the Windows 8 launch, expansion into the ARM- and Intel-based tablet markets, Office and Server product line refreshes, and a potential macro recovery and cyclical rebound in PCs.
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But Mr Jackson and the Washington Post should not bet on the fashion changing fast.
Even so, I would not bet on the year-to-date rally maintaining its 8.38% year-to-date pace throughout 2013.
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Like Napoleon, I bet they will not realize the returns they hope to realize by invading the consumer market with their tablet.
The new count should show if they have had any effect (with the cheap availability of ultrasound, do not bet on it).
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Now that the corporate world has learned how to make itself rich, its inhabitants will not bet their companies by overleveraging balance sheets.
Frankly, I would not bet the farm on the industry as a whole achieving anything near 14.5% EPS growth rate over the next three to five years.
But if the Welshman, whose record is now 18-5-1, does manage to recapture the form and desire of three years ago, do not bet against him swiftly climbing the rankings towards the crown he once wore.
With thousands of NCAA tournament brackets being filled out this March, with reasons for team selections ranging from point differentials to favorite mascots, why not bet on the teams that invest the most in their on-court success?
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"We have enough to get me excited that I'd be willing to bet your house it's real but not enough to bet my house, " said particle physicist Rob Roser of Fermilab, which oversees the Tevatron collider.
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If you bet on a one trick pony and lose your bait, that was most likely your mistake, not that you bet on a fad.
It's a safe bet that Scalia will not choose to retire while Obama is president.
"I bet there's not much crossover, " said literary agent David Gernert, who represents thriller writer John Grisham.
Active trading and arbitrage will be needed to win, not merely bet-and-hold strategies.
Little wonder, then, that Mr Cameron decided not to bet on a second election, as Harold Wilson did in 1974.
Nevertheless, another sophisticated investor with a big bankroll, Dan Loeb, has made a huge bet that Herbalife does not fit the description.
If history has taught investors a lesson, that lesson is not to bet against banks, especially the ones that are too big to fail.
Over the next couple of days, he said he will be talking to all the club's players and advising them not to bet on rugby games.
And although the amount of money invested in big data startups has been trending down (together with all other VC investments), I bet that they are not done yet.
The key idea here is that often a bet in biotech is not about what is most likely to happen, but on what the expectations for that thing happening are.
What makes this incubator different is that it does not take a bet on new ideas.
Owners are not going to bet their own money on such an uncertain proposition.
Investing in the top guns of the oil industry is a good bet, peak oil or not.
Netanyahu's best bet in this case is not to ask Obama for favors.
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