Word: gambler
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...call option for about $600 that gives you the right to buy 100 shares of Oracle in mid-July at $85 a share. Oracle is now trading at about $81. Say the stock soars to $91, a full 6 points above the strike price. The gambler's profit is $600, or double his investment. Had he bought the stock instead of the option, his $600 would have fetched only seven shares, and the rise to $91 would have netted just...
During his 10-second interview while auditioning at John Harvard's Brewhouse earlier this spring, he told the show's recruiters he was a big gambler...
...Quasha's roommate Mark D. W. Best '02 said he is not really such a big gambler...
...young, I wanted to be a crook because I didn't want an ordinary life. I wanted an interesting life. And I didn't know if I was talented in any way - I was a magician as a kid and then I went from that to being a gambler. I went from card tricks and hat tricks to cheating at cards and dice. And from that, I thought, it's just a short step to being an artist or a crook. It would be an interesting life for me. But things didn't work out. [smiles and hangs his head...
...inveterate gambler I pay some attention to odds, and the consensus is that they're in my favor. Of almost 400,000 who have received the shot so far, the Pentagon reports only 102 "adverse reactions" (with just 14 serious enough to warrant time off from work). Meanwhile, various news articles quote anti-inoculation groups as saying the figure is about a thousand. So, if I split the difference and quadruple the military's numbers - to, say, 400 - that's still 1,000 to 1 that I come away with nothing worse than a bump on my arm, which...