Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't get the bugs out of our system until the Albany meet," said Peckham. "I wouldn't bet against us if we were to wrestle [Penn] again, tomorrow...
...slow to learn to read but liked to take things apart -- a way of "finding out how the world around me worked." But he confesses that he was never very good at putting things back together. When he was twelve, he recalls wryly, "one of my friends bet another friend a bag of sweets that I would never come to anything. I don't know if this bet was ever settled...
While it may be hasty to assume that James is headed for some kind of All-Ivy honor just yet, it does look like James is a sure-fire bet for the Ivy League Rookie-of-the-Year award. The last Crimson player to claim that honor was Harvard's third all-time leading scorer, Bob Ferry, in the 1981-82 season...
...bet is that they are looking to buy prestige in Boston." --A sample from an internal K-School memo describing a Texas couple who were offered University "officer status" by the school in exchange for a $250,000 donation. (11/12/87...
Enter stock-index futures. These are speculative instruments, traded mostly in the pits of the Chicago commodity exchanges, that allow investors to bet on the direction the stock market is headed without having to buy the stocks themselves. Cheaper and easier to trade than traditional securities, stock- index futures seemed to the budding portfolio insurers like a hedge made in heaven. Rather than sell stocks when prices start to fall, clients could hold the stocks and sell stock-index futures instead. If the market kept falling, income from the sale of the futures would offset much of the losses...