Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ones who love to attend the caucuses--it's a big deal," says Larry Schmitz, the local radio station's news director. "We worry about Dole because we think we couldn't handle the job," says Don Law, 64, a county supervisor leaning to Gramm. "I'll bet some turn away from him in the end because...
...imagine the results. Most people (including, I'd bet, the state legislators) ignored the limit completely. If they were pulled over, they got out their wallets, counted out some change, and left. The going joke: Give the first officer a $20 bill and tell the next three you already paid...
...GALATEA 2.2 by Richard Powers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complicated network of computer circuitry that, on a bet, is being taught to think. The Pygmalions--there are a couple of them--are an acerbic cyber-scientist and a lovelorn novelist named (hmm?) Richard Powers. A scheme that might seem mechanical and too clever works out instead to be humane and thoughtful and, when the computer is troubled by 3 a.m. brooding ("What race am I? What races hate me?"), surprisingly moving...
...past six months from Mr. Idei outlining his views of how I should do things. Stylistically, it was not something I was used to dealing with." Schulhof concluded that his mandate to meld entertainment and electronics was over. "He's truly a visionary," says a former Sony executive. "He bet the ship that profits would ultimately come from this concept, but it didn't work in the short term. Was he a good manager? No. He was totally unable to make it happen...
Whether Idei wins his hardware bet remains to be seen, of course. But Sony continues the lavish spending on software that Schulhof charted. Last week Variety reported that TriStar agreed to pay Tom Cruise $20 million up front to star in the comedy Jerry Maguire. It was the third $20 million payday that Sony has recently served up to top Hollywood talent...