Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republicans voted against the MX measure. The G.O.P. defections were more than offset by ten Democratic votes for the MX, including that of Minority Leader Robert Byrd, a longtime MX supporter. Said Democrat Christopher Dodd: "The negotiations in Geneva are what put this over the top. I'll bet Reagan got ten votes on that basis alone...
Indeed, most of his comrades do not expect him to pursue a candidacy. "No way," says New York Businessman William Fugazy, an old friend. "I'll bet my life on it." Califano seems somewhat more hopeful. "He says privately what he says in public--that he doesn't want it. But once he made the commitment," he says, "Lee would be phenomenal as a candidate. He knows how to lead. He knows how to communicate." A few who know Iacocca say they think that he could be nudged into...
Ever the gambler, Edwards had offered any takers 8 to 5 that he would not be indicted. To cover his bet, he also offered 2-to-1 odds that if indicted, he would not be convicted. He greeted the indictments philosophically: "I don't cry, I don't sigh; this will be over with by and by." He has hired former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal as his defense attorney. "You're not ever going to see a fight like this," he vows. "There is no way that any evidence can be produced to sustain or substantiate the tortuous allegations made...
Though the NCAA more is more prestigious the NIT night just be a better bet for the Crimson...
...Grabs is a story of rapacity and gall told with bemused admiration for the waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State. "All our lies would turn out to be true," says a veteran developer who bet that dreams of warmth and leisure would prevail over miasmal realities. Florida's first land barons dredged canals and transformed muck into pay dirt. Huge damp swaths of the stuff were then subdivided and merchandised as paradise. Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier was hired to lure frostbitten Northerners with seductive publicity, and William Jennings Bryan was paid...