Word: bets
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Devoting time to those activities and pursuits we have chosen is a safe bet. But at the same time, this makes it harder to embrace a House we did not choose or an academic course of study that, practically speaking, means little compared to the weight of a Harvard diploma. Ignoring these hopes completely--hopes which may or may not turn out to be false--signifies the ironist's triumph...
...will abandon Seedy Petey for gsm, a cellular standard that handles data far better--and faster. That GSM-compatible Merlin, which the company expects to start selling in the middle of next year, will supposedly send and receive data at Mercury-fast 144 kbps, even from a train. I bet it'll be cute...
...Bradley and Miller rolled their reform together with many of those projects in a single piece of omnibus legislation, so that for other lawmakers, the price of getting water pork was a vote in favor of reform. For Bradley, the price was agreeing to pork projects he loathed. "You bet he swallowed hard," says Thomas Jensen, then a top subcommittee staff member. "Given his druthers, he never would have supported them. But he knew what other Senators know--logrolling works...
Morris explained that he was just there to settle a bet, so the scout for the Devil Rays laughed and put him last on the schedule. After assessing 60 unpromising teenagers, the scout was eager to go home and told Morris to hurry. Without warming up, Morris threw his first pitch--at 94 m.p.h. The scout, figuring his radar gun was broken, checked him with another. Then Morris threw 12 pitches at 98 m.p.h. The scout, who later said he was "bumfuzzled," asked Morris to come back two days later, when, in pouring rain, he threw 95 m.p.h...
...drain, so will a stable political evolution in the region and a promising economic one. Remember, this is happening under the auspices of the international community. Armed intervention is not the only option. Economic sanctions do not kill soldiers and do not require permission from Indonesian officials. Furthermore, I bet no political force in Indonesia is willing to have sanctions imposed. PEDRO HOMEM DE GOUVEIA Lisbon...