Word: bets
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Given the commercial airline industry's financial straits, chartering a private mile-high flight may be your best bet. "When do you ever see empty seats [anymore]?" June says, observing that the frequency of on-board trysts has recently dipped. But the mere lack of privacy (or blankets or booze) isn't likely to stop the most determined couples. Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of the upcoming collection of erotica, The Mile High Club: Plane Sex Stories (Cleis Press), says, "I think it depends. Anyone who's horny and creative enough can find...
...message to dollar bears is clear: the grimmer the headlines are, the more misleading they can be. Selling the dollar short because of the financial crisis is not a sure bet. All economic news is relative, and right now the news is bad all over the world. Over the next several months, the greenback could even begin to look like a safe harbor in the midst of the global economic storm...
Only a month ago, Bruce Lunsford looked like a bad bet to unseat the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill. A businessman who twice failed to become Kentucky's governor, Democrat Lunsford seemed not much of a match for minority leader Mitch McConnell, who has spent 24 years in the Senate. McConnell's campaign has raised nearly $18 million, while Lunsford had to loan $5.5 million to his. But where polls as recently as mid-September were showing Lunsford running 13 or more points behind McConnell, several since then suggest the race is a dead heat, and the national Democratic...
...been thinking, Oh, my God, this could be bad. But I feel pretty powerless to do anything. I figure, what goes down will come back up. Maybe we've seen the worst of it." Maybe. The fate of the economy could depend on how many Americans are willing to bet...
...another, 15 seconds. I'm here because you're important. I'm here because you matter. They sent me here because you and the people who don't want to answer this question matter more to my magazine than any other Americans. Please teach me. Educate me.'" I bet Luntz doesn't go home alone very often...