Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headache, he's saying, 'Oh, it's cancer.' But this time it really was cancer. He was tough." A third doctor, a third opinion: the best solution is to watch and wait. Grove listened to them all and then picked the course he's chosen for years. "I bet on my own charts...
...Grove bet his life on a "smart bomb" of high-dose radiation, a new procedure that he felt offered the best chances. It seems to have put the cancer away for now. Grove won't say he's "recovered," just that levels of the telltale prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in his blood have sunk...
...Clausewitz craved the decisive battle, Grove hungers for the decisive risk, the bet that will guarantee Intel's future. "Are we missing something?" Grove mused one day this spring over a lunch of tofu and ketchup, settling his silverware into a moment of quiet. "Sometimes," he says in a rolling baritone, "the risk of omission is greater than the risk of commission...
...said, 'I could sit on my ass here and go out for a loaf of bread one day, and you'll never see me again. Or I can get out.' In today's terminology, one had an upside and the other didn't." Grove, not for the last time, bet his ass on the upside...
...logical encompasses the inherent illogic of human passion. For gangly Oscar, nervous yet nervy in Fiennes' gloriously addled performance, is a gambling man. Gambling is an activity that, as he sees it, permits him leaps and tests of faith, with all his winnings going to churchly charities. He has bet that he can deliver this fragile edifice by a certain date despite the roughness of both the country and the crew that's helping with the tugging and hauling...