If asteroids as big as DA14 pass close to Earth once every decade or two, and meteors as large as the Chelyabinsk one impact once every 100 years (a similar meteor having caused the Tunguska event in 1908), the chance of both events happening on any one day are indeed very small: 1 in 3, 650 days times 1 in 36, 500 days, or about 1 in 100 million -- not odds you would bet against.
That's not bad odds, though I don't find this last stretch to be quite as compelling as it could be.
"We're not looking at odds or anything like that, " Rangers captain Ryan Callahan said.
If the situation were reversed, would an American patriot not be at odds with his sometime allies?
With just under 1 hour before post time, bettors are racking up the wagers but not changing the odds on the Kentucky Derby much.
Not liking his odds, Reiner drove upstate to see the Cleveland Clinic's Allan Siperstein, who ablated the tumors with two radio-frequency procedures that required only overnight stays.
Obama's speech promising more transparency is not necessarily at odds with this week's covert strike, according to Shamila Chaudhary, a former National Security Council staffer who worked on Pakistan.
These words put Ortega not only at odds with the interests of his own nation but also portrayed him as being as unreliable as he was in the past.
One memorable work out of four shown in New York by Mr. Maillot's company since 1999 may not be great odds, but there's always another roll of the dice.
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The influential reach of that revenue is a hot debate in organizations that are supposed to put more ideal values above capitalistic ones -- the two are not always at odds, though.
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Not yet and odds are just as the number of songs grew in iTunes over time and the number of apps in the App Store grew over time, so too will the number of Passbook-integrated solutions.
Of course not -- odds are you're sporting a Vertu or two -- but Moto is hoping to keep you in the fold with a specially branded version of the same, tired, old Z8 that launched nearly a year ago.
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If you are unlucky enough to get infected the odds are not good.
Odds are not good for a happy result before the year terminates.
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They may grow up to live a fulfilled life, as many orphans do, but their odds are not as favourable as their parented counterparts.
If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good.
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The raw odds are not in his favor.
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They are hard to answer in one volume and Mr Whitfield does not do well against the odds.
However, despite seeing the odds on him being selected for Capello's 2010 squad shorten to 5-4 with bookmakers, Owen remains odds-on not to make the plane to South Africa at 4-7.
As human behavior and weather cycles have not changed much for hundreds of years, the odds of a continuation of past trends are a good, but not perfect, guide to the future.
But Ferguson feels the market is now over-inflated and he does not want to pay over the odds for players.
The market place reckons odds are higher than not that there will be a last-minute agreement among U.S. lawmakers to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Odds are this is not going to be your last job.
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For all the reasons Bush has given for keeping his embattled attorney general, one not openly spoken of is the odds of getting a Democratic Senate to confirm a successor.
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While the market place presently perceives odds are higher than not that there will be a last-minute agreement among U.S. lawmakers to avoid the fiscal cliff, the overall situation has been a bearish drag on many markets, including the raw commodities and stock markets.
While the market place presently perceives odds are higher than not that there will be a last-minute agreement among U.S. lawmakers to avoid the fiscal cliff, the overall situation continues to be a bearish drag on many markets, including the raw commodities and stock markets.
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