Although it varies from place to place, lottery-type games such as keno or slots typically have the worst odds, with the house advantage getting up to around 35%.
The first distinction is that all markets have two types of participants, the house and the players, and the house always has an advantage over the players.
Democrats hold a 253-177 advantage in the House, with four seats that they once held vacant and one seat that the GOP held vacant.
In-house style expertise gives Zozotown another advantage, says analyst Takahiro Kazahaya at Deutsche Securities.
"That was the inflection point when we saw a unique advantage in stacking the house with quants, analysts and salespeople and piled it on, " says one longtime Goldman partner, now retired.
Those who could afford the annual fee, could drive to a big warehouse in the suburbs, had two or more refrigerators to store perishable items, and could take advantage of a large house for storage of non-perishables, have been blessed by the benefits of lower prices.
Like the Staples Center, the other new arenas taking the biggest advantage of corporate sponsorships also house multiple teams.
His current storyline has seen him move his debt-ridden girlfriend Gwen (Annie Hulley) into his house, unaware that she is taking advantage of him.
But rather than back down, Rumsfeld's forces fired off a letter to the White House, asking the President to take advantage of a swiftly changing situation in Iraq to install Chalabi's interim government.
But there's another, even more important reason: The upstart thinks it can gain a strategic advantage by using in-house metallurgists to develop the lightweight, high-strength alloys it needs to satisfy higher fuel economy and safety standards.
The White House wants to allow more people to take advantage of a program called Pay As You Earn.
When combined with record numbers of refinancings to take advantage of these low rates, house prices might firm up sooner than most think.
Republicans must intensify their efforts if they want to keep Democrats from winning the House or degrading their 234 to 201 seat advantage there.
The 1-to-1 pegging of the peso to the dollar gave Argentina a few years of breathing room to get its house in order, but no one took advantage of it.
With their majority under threat, the Republican leaders in the House are in no mood to surrender the money advantage that the existing campaign-finance system gives them.
Many families took advantage of the right to buy their council house at 30% of its market value - at least two-thirds of the Becontree estate was sold to the private sector.
Concerns have also been raised about how membership of select committees would work for job-sharers, how much time each MP would get to speak in the House and whether constituencies with two MPs would get an advantage by having more representation than those with only a single MP.
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This gambit is so controversial (and cynical) that the word on Capitol Hill and in industry circles is that the White House will bigfoot HHS and make the final decision on the Advantage cuts.
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Although it is true that by proclaiming his devotion to the so-called peace process, Netanyahu was able to deflect some of the White House's attacks against him, the short-term advantage it brought him this week in Washington is eclipsed by the long-term damage such an approach causes the country.
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White House, chances are good that the ensuing debate will redound to his advantage.
Against this backdrop, Israel must craft policies that maximize its advantage on Capitol Hill and minimize its vulnerability to the White House.
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If Bush can succeed in making defense a prominent feature in his case for taking back the White House, chances are good that the ensuing debate will redound to his advantage.
But they know their house has grown in value since they bought it, and are keen to take advantage of that increase.
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We have an innate advantage in our proprietary brands, which are driven by 45 in-house designers who previously worked for some major fashion apparel brands.
Companies working out of the Foundry also take advantage of various shared tools and spaces that Sandbox provides, including in-house specialists, meeting rooms, and more.
But there is bound to be the question: where does the advantage lie in an investment bank which is cut off from its in-house source of funding, and should it not simply split completely?
Final Cut's biggest advantage is price, says Jake Abraham , post-production director at digital filmmaking house InDigEnt .
Three times within two weeks the House ethics committee has rebuked the Republican leader for being over-aggressive in his pursuit of corporate donations and political advantage.
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