Word: wager
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Women were not shrinking violets in evaluating their own worth as money managers. Half the women said they felt females made better financial managers, and 21% of the men concurred. Some of the findings seemed less surprising. Women make bets less frequently than men. Their average wager is $1.80, vs. $3.10 for men. And sexual liberation or no, if one were to stop a couple on the street, the man would probably be carrying more cash than his companion. Women's wallets hold an average of $29; men carry...
...foursome has recently discovered that they can wend their way from their apartments to their office in an immense downtown shopping mall through tunnels, skyways, and inter-building corridors, without ever stepping foot outside. And with this realization comes a wager. To deal with the mind-numbing tedium of their cubicle lives, the group decides to bet a month’s salary to see who among them can survive the longest without fresh...
...wager most Harvard undergrads have committed willful (and in most cases knowing) copyright infringement, and I can guess reasonably well by looking at the shared music libraries on iTunes that many people have done so quite recently (the collector’s edition of The Massacre by 50 Cent has only been out since the beginning of March, and I’m sure at least some of the half-dozen or so copies online weren’t actually purchased...
...young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls and knife fights. In May 1606, when he was around 34, he killed a man with a sword, in a fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted...
...would wager that most Harvard students—many of whom actively avoid classes that start before 11:00 a.m. or meet regularly on Fridays—don’t remember, think or write as effectively in the morning as they do later on in the day. It’s not merely an inconvenience for late-nighters—as the squinty-eyed superiority complex of the early risers would undoubtedly claim. Morning people get a big advantage over the rest of us when it comes to final exams, which often determine student grades. There?...