Word: wager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nikkei 225, an index of the value of 225 Japanese stocks that is Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was a straightforward process: in effect, Leeson placed open-ended bets on what would happen to billions of dollars worth of Japanese stocks and bonds. His wager was similar to what gamblers in Las Vegas betting on a football game call the over and under-meaning a bet on whether the final score of a football game will be above or below a certain number of points. Leeson was betting the over on the Nikkei...
...Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...
...bucks that says that Neil won't make it past the 20-mile mark," one would-be dry humorist says, slapping the table to reinforce the wager...
Yesterday, she offered to wager that a new vicepresident will be named within a month...
...months that debate has focused on ideas, generalities, trial balloons, leaked outlines. Now it can zero in on the specifications of an actual draft bill. Not necessarily one bearing much resemblance to what Congress may eventually pass, however. Said Senate Republican leader Robert Dole: "I'm willing to wager that the final product will be considerably different from any bill that has been proposed to date" -- including Clinton's and five alternates offered by legislators...