Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that if it didn't work, it wasn't going to bring the studio down. There was a regular cinema audience. Today, as I learned to my cost at Columbia, almost every time you come up to bat, you're making a $20 million, $30 million or $50 million bet. That's not an environment that encourages risk or adventurous, creative decisions...
...circuit boards cooled by liquid nitrogen, but lacked adequate software. Control Data lost about $200 million on supercomputers during the past three years, and Chairman Robert Price thinks the venture would have consumed plenty more. Said he: "Let's put it this way: there are less risky ways to bet $200 million in the computer industry...
...bet I'm pleased," Kleinfelder said. "I thought we needed a big game today. We just weren't really clicking. If you look, you'll see that this was our second largest-scoring game...
...assumed since his martyrdom. To many & Filipinos, Burton notes, "Ninoy" Aquino and Marcos were merely two sides of the same coin. Yet, ultimately, Ninoy is a sainted Machiavellian. Scheming and plotting, he returns from self-exile in the U.S., a gambler going for broke. His last courageous bet: that Filipinos are worth dying...
...good bet that about half of them--those who proudly label themselves 'lifelong residents of Cambridge'--have muttered the word 'Harvard' like a druid curse at least once in their lives," The Crimson wrote...