Word: bets
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...ones from outright frauds. In a recent paper, Dean Foster, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and H. Peyton Young, a senior fellow in economics at the Brookings Institution, argued that the lack of industry regulation makes bad managers nearly impossible to detect. By making bets that have a relatively low probability of failing - say, 10% - an unskilled manager has a 90% chance of making good. But if the bet does go south, the industry's fee structure, which often includes 2% of investors' money plus another 20% of profits, ensures that the manager will walk...
...able to spend days diagnosing one patient and doing several trillion dollars worth of tests. In real life, hundreds of people would have died, waiting in triage, while House made cranky jokes about a man whose skin had miraculously turned all the colors of the rainbow. You can also bet that the man’s insurance company wouldn’t cover even a quarter of the litany of tests for which House calls. The creators have tried to hide behind the guise of a “teaching hospital” in order to create the sense that...
...These are the lessons - personal growth, ethnic solidarity, the meeting of true hearts - that Mad 2, like virtually all animated films, feels compelled to teach. Maybe that's salutary for the wee ones, but I'll bet they, and their elders, prefer the subsidiary creatures, who in the movie's better moments crowd the screen and take over, like the Preston Sturges rep company in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero - or like Scrat the Sisyphusian squirrel in the Ice Age pictures. In Mad 2 we get some penguins and a lemur, all balm...
...drum, and he appears to have no regrets about it. "Most people will see Lieberman as one of the big losers of this election," said Sean Smith, Lieberman's 2006 primary campaign manager, who worked for Obama in Pennsylvania in the presidential election. "In reality, though, the bet he made on McCain had no downside. If McCain had won, he would have been rewarded handsomely. But if vengeful Democrats now make an example of him, Lieberman will wear it as the ultimate badge of honor in the martyr myth he has built of himself - punished for his independence...
...wouldn't win the U.S. election that she offered to wager money with anyone in the small crowd gathered around the TV at an election party in North Tehran on Tuesday. Despite Obama's clear lead in the polls, the woman was unconvinced. "How much do you want to bet?" she demanded. There were no takers willing to bet against some surprise turn of events that would deny Obama his expected victory. "Just like our Guardian Council handpicks the candidates [in Iran's elections], their Supreme Court chose Bush in 2000," another friend explained. "What makes you think they...