And Apple can certainly afford to take a flyer on anything.

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Or individual Microsoft shareholders who might well decide to take a flyer on that group of geeks around the corner who might just be the next Microsoft?

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Instead, a spokesman for the relevant British arts agency (sounding a bit like he was just coming out of a pub himself, and in a mood to take a flyer) promised to increase lottery funding for film by 60 percent by 2014.

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But the Labour government suggested that such a frequent flyer tax would hit ordinary families looking to take their summer holidays overseas.

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