This looks like cheap disaster insurance, or a cheap wager on a market crash.
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Those fans who play in fantasy leagues or wager on the games will be especially upset.
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Want to wager on Saints quarterback Drew Brees surpassing 500 passing yards?
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.
As Jonathan Brill mentioned, I do not wager on sports.
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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.
The Dublin-based gaming company better known for giving some 60, 000 subscribers the ability to wager on ponies, sporting events and the outcome of celebrity criminal trials online, wants to offer trading in weather events, credit risks and economic indicators.
Anyone want to wager a guess on when Facebook raises another large round of cash?
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Facebook will allow users in Britain to wager real money on its service, opening its doors to gambling for the first time as revenue growth slows at the world's No. 1 social network.
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.
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.
We ve seen it work internationally, and I d wager similar programs could be put to good use on U.S. soil as well.
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.
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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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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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?
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