So gamblers might pick a current star from the 1980s and 1990s--such as Madonna, Tom Cruise or Calista Flockhart.
And investments, including the Underground's current star project, the Jubilee Line extension, have sometimes been guided more by political considerations than by careful cost-benefit analysis.
Case in point: the current star of reality television, Kim Kardashian who has amassed a multi-million dollar fortune simply by having no shame in her game.
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On his current star pupil: Harmon was at Augusta the recent Sunday when Mickelson's triple bogey on the fourth hole at the Masters cost him a realistic shot at his fourth green jacket.
We live in a much more celebrity laden era, but there is no current star, certainly not in music, who holds a candle to the kind of admiration and reverence the King enjoyed.
In addition to viewing the sun's luminous outer atmosphere (corona), which under normal circumstances is lost in the glare of the rays, they will be using the eclipse to calculate the star's current diameter, which changes as the sun expends energy.
After the Olympics came a vast transformation to the current Michelin star-studded gastronomic paradise, likewise a renaissance for office towers, shinkansen fast trains, freeways and, later, mass foreign tourism with a strong currency and credit cards.
Bobby Willis guided Cilla from 1970s variety show hostess to her current position of star of Saturday evening light entertainment.
Williams is playing on a winning team with current All-Star Brook Lopez and former All-Stars Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace, but the success has come at the cost of his own statistics.
Ledley is out of contract next June and his agent, David Baldwin, has previously told BBC Sport Wales that the 27-cap Wales star will see out his current deal rather the re-sign with the Bluebirds.
Hall of Famers such as Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, and Joe Morgan highlighted an all star cast of former and current players that traveled to Greenwich Village on a frigid winter evening to pay tribute to a man who simply referred to himself as a trade unionist and civil libertarian.
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Australian researchers watched what happened when a small law firm and a stockbroking and research company moved into a 5 Green Star-rated space in their current building in Melbourne.
Vertonghen is not the first Belgium star to move to England during the current transfer window.
In fact, for all the current excitement about rock-star bonds and the like, it is striking that the vast majority of asset-backed securities are American and involve a few types of assets, such as mortgage and credit-card loans, which generate relatively predictable amounts of cash at predictable times.
The result has been a push towards long, thoughtful essays on current affairs, attempts at building a star system of writers and so on.
We're very happy that George Lucas will be creative consultant on our new Star Wars films and that Kathleen Kennedy, the current Co-Chair of Lucasfilm, will executive produce.
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Former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, the heads of Current TV, have just fired their star anchorman, Keith Olbermann, who previously left MSNBC on bad terms.
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In fact, the only way the pulses could have been seen with the current observations would be if the flashing neutron star was excessively bright.
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To the current generation, he resembled a different hoops star.
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Analyst Gerald Steinberg says this crisis may bring down the current defense minister, Amir Peretz, a rising star in the Labor Party who was given the defense post despite a lack of experience.
One of the four, dubbed KOI 172.02, is a mere 1.5 times the size of the Earth and around a star like our own Sun - perhaps as near as the current data allow to finding an "Earth 2.0".
Look, I agree: It's fun to kick back over All-Star weekend and wonder how an icon like Jordan compares to the current game's premier player, LeBron James.
Will this verdict strike such fear in the hearts of current or future desperate-to-be-a-star players that it will deter those so inclined from doping?
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Take Madonna's current world tour, the first in eight years by the pop star, who is signed up to the group's Warner Brothers Records.
The discovery of a star system with multiple planets circling multiple stars is going to cause some revisions to current theories about how planets are formed.
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Wenger insisted he was not worried by the criticism of his team, who sold their captain and star striker Robin van Persie to Premier League leaders Manchester United before the start of the current season.
Along with a current line-up of more than 90 compatible games, including the five star No Gravity, Outfoxed, Silverfish, Temple Run, Super Crossfire HD, Air Attack HD and Terra Noctis, Gametel for iOS devices also supports iCADE's suite of classic retro games with over 100 titles available to download from the Apple iTunes App Store.
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In the past five McDonald's All-Star games, only two players from the Hawkeye State made the cut, including 2010 MVP and current Golden State Warriors forward Harrison Barnes.
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