Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shalnev propsed a deal, asking, "How much do you want to bet on that...
...bet," said Goldman...
Wiser today, and equipped with a settled, trusted staff, Lear ruefully recalls the chaotic gestation: "In the beginning, I knew nothing about the magazine business. I knew I had a good idea. Everyone told me so, but they all bet against my doing it." In addition to exasperated editors, she was confronted by battalions of advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty...
...April 27, the British journal Nature, to which Pons and Fleischmann had submitted their paper, then withdrawn it when asked to give more information, published an editorial on fusion fever. Verdict: it had been fun, but Pons and Fleischmann had been sloppy. Cold fusion, editor John Maddox bet, would most likely be a flop...
...Texas to look further into an oil-well sale involving Wright. The story: Mallick and the Wrights were fifty-fifty partners in an investment company called Mallightco, but in 1987 Wright instructed the trustee of his blind trust to sell out. Mallick told the committee that he wanted to "bet the farm" on one more deal before the pullout...