Word: wager
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...situation we find ourselves in is a bizarre one: something like 90 million Americans—including, I would wager, better than 95 percent of Harvard students—are more or less daily breaking the law. Most of them don’t even know what the law says, and just about all of them don’t care...
...entering the Senate with more buzz than clout, Clinton did her homework, kept her head down and stayed in tireless contact with her New York constituents. Gradually, her political capital rose. Obama says he plans to ask for her advice. Depending on how the conversation goes, maybe they could wager on the chances of them ever running together for the White House. --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/Chicago and Jeannie McCabe/Honolulu
This recent incident has in many ways cemented the reputation of the Bush administration: not as a strong and capable wager of the war on terror, but as a dishonorable rule-breaker that chooses to deceive the entire country and jeopardize the seriousness of America’s signatory status to the Geneva Conventions in order to wage a wrong-headed war against the wrong country...
Malaysians are mad about soccer, but if they want to wager a few ringgit on Manchester United or Arsenal, they do so at their own risk: gambling on the beautiful game is illegal in the predominantly Muslim nation. Last year, that situation was headed for change. Earlier this month, news was leaked that tycoon Vincent Tan had been awarded a license to run a national soccer-betting network by outgoing Prime Minister...
...make fun of small-town America," says Wernick. "The thing we actually set out to do was make fun of Hollywood." That would explain the kleptomaniac tendencies of one of Shatner's sham-movie co-stars. Says Wernick: "That was our little shout-out to Winona Ryder." We'd wager that she isn't laughing either...