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...years, Blagojevich has amassed a campaign war chest of more than $20 million. Over the summer, he had $12 million on hand while Topinka reported just $1.5 million in the bank. In a match-up where neither candidate's policy agenda has found much traction, it's hard to bet against the one whose budget for attack ads is virtually limitless...
...able to carry out the sort of cost-cutting that a U.S. firm would now do." Indeed, archrival Boeing has cut more than 50,000 jobs over the past eight years. The 555-seat, double-decker A380 is not just another airplane. It is one of those bet-the-company ventures, so beloved by the airline industry, which either succeed spectacularly - as the Boeing 747 did - or risk sending the whole firm into a tailspin. Mechanically at least, the A380 works: Airbus has been conducting successful test flights for over a year. Horstmann, the Munich bank analyst, reckons there...
President Bush is expected to sign a bill banning the use of any U.S. credit-card or payment system (such as PayPal) to bet online. A ban could devastate the $12 billion Net gaming industry...
Serious gamblers will bet on almost anything, and these days, thanks to the Internet, they have a wealth of choices that have nothing to do with sports. Some of the most popular wagers center around who the next Pope will be, what the next celebrity divorce will be, and whether there will ever be a female U.S. president. But each year odds players try to read the minds of a cryptically secretive, notoriously unpredictable group of people in Sweden who choose the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
...possible that they might ignore the role of the Aceh peace process, but I don?t find it likely for them to do that,? said Toennesson. ?I must admit that I normally bet on people who are involved in real political peace processes - a mediator, or an organization dedicated to peace. But the current committee has a different profile and they are trying to widen the prize to new categories of winners...