Word: wager
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...media sites like Digg, Flickr and YouTube are able to rely on volunteer contributions simply because a market has yet to emerge to price this "new kind of labor." He and Benkler then entered into what has come to be widely known in Web circles as the "Carr-Benkler wager": a bet on whether, by 2011, such sites will be driven primarily by volunteers or by professionals...
...however, the Lamont Library Café has settled—after a few decor and menu changes—into a comfortable place along side the library’s traditional offerings of books and desks. Pandemonium has not erupted. Books have remained relatively grease-free. I would even wager that, in general, Lamont is a more productive and rewarding place than it ever was (at least for those students who have avoided boredatlamont.com...
...election campaign has begun?though the poll isn't due until late 2007. Howard is seeking a fifth term and remains the punters' favorite: employment and consumer spending are strong, the Prime Minister is a wily operator, his opponent an inexperienced leader. According to Centrebet, based on a $1 wager, a win for Howard's Liberal-National coalition will return $1.72; one for Labor $2. But the sports-betting agency says Labor could become the favorite within weeks. A combination of voters' curiosity and Rudd's fidelity to the media spotlight has produced a big bounce for the Opposition leader...
...this same vein, I am willing to wager that the reason many women choose not to run for the UC is not because they are blatantly discouraged from doing so by their male counterparts, but because they would just rather not involve themselves in the "sausage-fest of the year." This begs the question: Why don’t more women run for the UC? Overt sexism is on the decline in the Harvard community. Rarely will you encounter someone on campus who is outspoken and secure in his or her discrimination against women. However, certain aspects of Harvard?...
...never know the multitude of options the Baker commission considered in preparing its recommendations for resolving the Iraq crisis, but here's one two-part strategy I'd wager no one thought of: Declare war, then...