Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wetherell can't believe that anyone is questioning these never before reached values. He says that not only is the Internet not a high-risk investment, but it is also "absolutely the safest bet I know." He has been making this wager since 1994, when CMGI (then known as College Marketing Group) was still a company that hawked textbooks to college professors. He took the firm public and used the proceeds to invest in then obscure companies such as Lycos and Booklink--the latter of which he would later sell to AOL for $70 million. The soft-spoken, laid-back...
...other hand, maybe poetry is everyone. Maybe everyone, whether they know it or not, has been touched by poetry. The problem is not that poetry is disappearing: poetry lives always and (I'm willing to bet) in everyone. The problem is that people have stopped recognizing where their lives and poetry intersect. Sales of poetry are declining and declining in bookstores around the world. We are forgetting that poetry...
...other hand, maybe poetry is everyone. Maybe everyone, whether they know it or not, has been touched by poetry. The problem is not that poetry is disappearings: poetry lives always and (I'm willing to bet) in everyone. The problem is that people have stopped recognizing where their lives and poetry intersect. Sales of poetry are declining and declining in bookstores around the world. We are forgetting that poetry...
...Indian casinos. The success of the Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Casinos in Connecticut has Merrill Lynch calling the state "the hottest gambling market in the country." But attempts by the federal government to regulate gambling on Indian lands are likely to result in fierce opposition. In fact, you can bet...
...started as a bet...