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Small-stakes players also tend to do better with small-denomination cards. A pair of jacks may easily beat a pair of fours, but people who don't gamble much tend to win more with the fours - or with any cards from twos to sevens. That's because the cards' modest numerical worth is easy to understand: they're valuable but not that valuable. When you get into the more rarefied air of eights to aces, you may start losing perspective and putting up more money. "Small pairs have a less ambiguous value," Siler says. (See more about casinos...
...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers, said that roughly 30 staff from FAS in his union had been laid off, mostly in "ones and twos" from 13 different departments and offices across FAS. Some of the eliminated jobs corresponded to services that administrators previously announced would be cut, Jaeger said. But he also noted that his tally's methodology and his definition of a "layoff" may differ from the School's, since the union's count does not include workers who volunteered to be laid off, nor those who were offered alternative jobs...
...animals are in great demand in mainly Muslim, meat-eating Bangladesh. An organized network of herders and trucks carries cows across the northern plains of India to cattle markets near the border, where they are dispatched to smugglers who try to sneak them over in ones and twos. The smugglers quickly learned how to get around the fence: the latest in smuggling technology involves a jury-rigged contraption of bamboo poles, iron hooks and old barbed wire used to haul small cows up and over the 10-ft.-high (3 m) fencing...
They entered the shack in twos. Despite the 100-plus degree temperature, all were covered from head to toe in garb ranging from burkas to more modern clothing paired with headscarves...
...shameless performer - constantly suing us for sympathy, by tricks that are either too cute or too crude. He's one of those actors who's always self-consciously acting like an actor instead of behaving like a human being. He's like a kid afflicted by the terrible twos, who having behaved badly then scrunches up his face into a mask of adorability in order to enlist our forgiveness. The result is the opposite. He makes us tired. And he makes the movie unforgivably tiresome...