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...million if no one else picked the winning number. Or you could split it with, say, 10 other winners and lose $50 million. In this imaginary scenario, "you're guaranteed to win something," explains Arnold Barnett, a statistician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "but will you recoup your investment? That depends on how many other people...
...maybe not. Some legal observers say the tide may be about to turn. The model is tobacco. For 40 years cigarette companies had a perfect record: 813 claims filed against them, no losses, no damages paid. But with popular opinion shifting against smoking and 47 states now suing to recoup their medical costs, Big Tobacco is worried enough about its chances going forward that it's offering hundreds of millions of dollars to settle. The key point for guns, like tobacco, is that negligence law turns on what society deems to be "reasonable" activity at a given time. "Judicial opinions...
...perhaps the biggest threat to the industry is the growing talk of cities' suing. Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell seemed to inspire a trend in January when he said he was considering filing a lawsuit to recoup the $58.8 million in gun-related costs his city spends each year on everything from police expenses to the cost of literally cleaning the blood off sidewalks. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has spoken of filing a suit to recoup costs and stop gun shops outside the city from selling guns to Chicago residents who have not legally registered with the city...
...Crimson entered Heps coming off a disappointing ninth-place finish out of 36 competitors at the New England Championships. The team stumbled to a slow start in the five-mile race and was unable to recoup...
Captain Margaret Angell made a crucial contribution which helped Harvard recoup, winning both the 800-meter and the 1500, as Harvard swept both events...