Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged with state murder one, which permits authorities to seek the death penalty. Looking disheveled and disoriented after his arrest, he was held without bail in a 7-ft. by 10-ft. cell set apart from the other inmates at Gander Hill prison, awaiting a preliminary hearing. "You can bet every dollar in your pocket and every hair on your head that he's going to plead not guilty," said his lawyer, Joseph Hurley Jr., adding, "Gerard Capano is trying to get out of 10 years...
...open season!" shouts one brochure. You bet it is--on us. Like lambs to the slaughter, we must make our "health-care elections" by Nov. 30, which means paying more money for less care, even as the cost of other necessities, like bread, milk and Big Macs, is holding steady. My insurer, Kaiser, has hiked premiums 18% since the Clinton health-care bill died a miserable death in 1994. And 8% fewer Americans have health insurance because their employers have decided it just costs too much. Boy, did we show that busybody Hillary a thing or two. It's true...
...free samples are more likely to get my business. At Fresh Fields, a yuppie-style grocery store in Washington owned by Boston's Bread and Circus chain, the savvy customer can eat practically an entire lunch just by grazing from the sample baskets. Tacky? I guess so. Yummy? You bet...
...music is loud and contemporary, and the crowd is composed primarily of tourists and families. However, there is an extensive drink menu and a bar that gets going on weekends. While it isn't the perfect setting for a romantic date, the Hard Rock is a good bet for a fun time with a group of friends or a birthday dinner; the whole restaurant will sing...
...those shoes, Disney motion-pictures-group chairman Richard Cook, deems it business as usual. Disney has tried--and succeeded in--undercutting most of its rivals' big animated films. "Are we going to make it easy for them?" he asks. "No. Are we going to compete? You bet! And what will be, will...