Anyone want to wager a guess on when Facebook raises another large round of cash?
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But I would wager a small sum (ie, not as much as an Apple share) that some of it is to do with Adam Smith and excess profits.
In 1980 he made a wager with a well-known environmentalist and population control advocate, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich.
This looks like cheap disaster insurance, or a cheap wager on a market crash.
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For example, residents of the U.S. are prohibited from playing due to the 1961 Wires Act that prohibits the placing of a bet or wager over a telephone line.
But according to Pascal's wager, a director-general who keeps faith in the round has little to lose.
"We have a wager, hence the giggling, " a reporter shot back.
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Though Pentafour's stock looks cheap, some investors are waiting and watching before making a wager.
He even has a wager with The Economist magazine in London, which predicted that China would be the largest economy by 2018.
Most racetracks are vestiges of an era when horse racing was the only gambling game in town, and when you had to be at the track to place a wager.
To share a development that is mindful of the planet's needs and potentialities, humanity must break out of a predatory growth cycle and recommit to a plural approach in which cultural diversity comes into play as a wager of success.
Fearing all markets could soon fall, El-Erian injected what he referred to as "Armageddon insurance" into HMC's portfolio for the first time by buying interest rate floors, or a wager that rates would fall, and betting, via credit default swaps, that companies could soon struggle to pay their debts.
That was a brave wager, because the company had built itself on big deals, and has gone through a decade-long dry spell when it comes to inventing new drugs. (See this piece, Drug Drought, from 2007.) Kindler stuck with this idea, even after the biggest drug in his pipeline failed five months into his CEO-ship.
Anyone care to wager, or should I say want to wager that we have a very good shot at matching that 36 month string by the time we close the books on 2011?
Making the pre-game odds all the more obvious, the expectation race was pretty well locked into place when, during the traveling clown show referred to as the Republican presidential candidates debates, Mitt Romney invited Governor Rick Perry to join him in a friendly wager among friends involving ten thousand dollars.
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It's a clever loophole, to be sure, but we'd wager there's more than a few undergraduates who are none too pleased at the Apple favoritism, and to be honest, we love nothing more right now than imagining a large group of S60 and Zune supporters gathering in a field for frisbee, picnic, and lots of protesting.
Of course, managing to play nice with every single powerful handset in the world would be a monumental challenge, and we're still a ways off from having a true laptop-replacing cellphone, but we'd wager that this here invention is certainly not a bad one to have on the drawing board.
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The public is not the only group with a desire to wager in increasing numbers.
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But Vatican insiders aren't the only prospective pontiffs punters can wager on in the hopes that a puff of white smoke will finally put their bank accounts into the black.
Nonios is the one that will add value here , but if two of the other three make up the exacta, it should still offer a profit on the wager.
But for all its promise of innovation, the A380 represents a bet-the-house wager on one of the most disliked same-old models of air travel: the hub-and-spoke.
But if there are relatively few high cards left to be dealt, the player has a slight advantage and should increase the wager.
Today is game day, and as the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers get ready to take the field, the mayors from those cities are taking a different approach to the traditional, friendly wager.
But even as Congress illegalized online gambling act last year, virtual economies like Second Life have remained in a legal gray area, allowing players to wager game currency that is often traded for real-world money.
In fact, we'd wager that most folks out there willing to shell out a few Gs on this will prefer the subdued look over the garish -- not that we don't adore the Envy 133's flashy exterior or anything.
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It's also fair to wager that if humans had lived without swords, we'd be living in a very different world.
And yet the majority of 401(k) account holders, I'll wager, know about the 504-point drop on Sept. 15 but have no a clue to what stocks have delivered over the long run.
File this in the quirky Super Bowl wager department: Zoos in Baltimore and San Francisco are gambling with the homes of two ravens and a rhino.
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