Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sarsour, 29, the terrorist who lobbed two grenades into a bus station in Beersheba last week, has also confessed to being responsible for two recent attacks in Hebron: a fatal stabbing and a grenade assault that wounded 14 soldiers. Apparently, he did all this while being courted by Shin Bet, Israel?s internal-security agency, to inform on the militant group Hamas. According to a Palestinian intelligence official, one of Sarsour?s cohort, in detention after the Beersheba attack, claims Sarsour told him that he had multiple meetings with Shin Bet officers; that he was given $1,000, in part...
...trauma of trashing Prodi two weeks ago? "Because Italian politics isn't logical," says Burke. "Once again, you've got a very fragile government composed of nine parties, ranging from Communists to the center-right, each of them able to hold D'Alema hostage." In other words, don't bet that the 56th government in 53 years will restore Italy's one-government-per-year average...
...historic lows already, and rates are famously difficult to forecast. To make an additional 25% gain in zeros from here, the T-bond yield would have to drop to about 4%. A further tumble sounds incredible, I know. You have to recognize zeros as an aggressive bet. But it could pay. Inflation, the greatest threat to bondholders, is truly dead, and the world and U.S. economies are weakening fast--developments that argue for lower rates...
BOSTON--Whenever human rights and individual freedoms are threatened, it is a sure bet that the people of Boston will take a stand against...
...bet a million dollars he didn't mean to do anything illegal...