Word: coffering
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...attuned to the rules of probability, you will leave the game having gained a profit. But now, say the stakes are upped and instead of $11, your friend has to give you $110, and instead of $10, you have to give him $100. You could wipe out your entire coffer after 10 coin tosses. The idea is similar for smart poker-playing: the trick is to play at levels at which you have a negligible risk of going broke, but you’re still able to make a significant profit...
Gore might have expected that sort of opposition, but he may well find he's pushing a bill of goods that's universally unsalable. First, there is the question of what incentive there would be to contribute to a central campaign coffer, because of both bipartisanship - "I don't want my hard-earned greenbacks going to those darned Democrats/rotten Republicans" - and the perception that access to candidates would be diminished. In addition, it's doubtful that he can even count on support from fellow Democrats. "There's general agreement that the only reason Democrats vote for these campaign finance overhaul...
...market be free. Condon, the only state attorney general to drop off the Microsoft case, won't say how much the company donated to the group. But he isn't embarrassed about the money--or about the $3,500 he solicited and got from Microsoft for his own election coffer after he dropped his state's lawsuit. "I was glad to get it," he says...
...Reform Party, which has more than 10 million dollars in federal matching funds in its coffer, will probably field a candidate in 2000 the hope of becoming stronger...
...intended to be the world's largest hydroelectric dam. Already, mammoth earthworks on both banks of the construction site have begun to constrict the flow of the river where it gushes forth from the Xiling Gorge. Over the next 14 years, if all goes as planned, first an earthen coffer dam and then a 200-yd.-high concrete spillway and adjacent set of ship-lifting locks will block the swirling channel, transforming the Three Gorges into a single deep and currentless reservoir. Covering everything from ancient temples to contemporary slag heaps, the water will flood 28,000 acres of farmland...