Word: wager
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...present this afternoon have wagered a great deal together in these past ten years at Harvard. For my own part, I would not hesitate a moment to make the very same wager again—except for the convenient fact that there can be no repeat performances in life,” he said...
...meantime, any business that's in the market to upgrade its technology can do so for a fraction of what it would have paid just eight months ago. Robert H. Wager Co., a firm in Rural Hall, N.C., that makes high-tech smoke detectors, was days away from defaulting on a $200,000 contract because of a shortage of critical semiconductors. A two-month search turned up one supplier with a 14-day lead time. Five minutes on VCE turned up supplies that could be delivered immediately. "We're deliriously happy," says sales director Christine Timchek. Similarly, Texatronics, a contract...
...73rd presentation of awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?Oscar Night?to see which of the nominees announced last week will be picking up a statuette and thanking God and their accountant. Of those viewers, millions will have placed a small, friendly, tense wager on the outcome...
...seem antithetical, or at least benignly neutral, to its mission. How many "future leaders" will change their behavior in the years ahead as a result of what they learned in S&E? From wide discussions with classmates, the answer is a resounding "none." On the other hand, I would wager that many students will accept as unequivocal truth a trickle-down theory of charity...
...turns out the reason I take any bet, no matter how long the odds, is not that I am very, very dumb but that each wager is a challenge to my masculinity, and that, for those who are not regular readers of this column, is something about which I'm a little insecure. It's the same reason men day-trade and look at pornography. I know that last part doesn't make sense, but I'm always searching for an excuse for the porn thing...