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There was more than just a p.r. battle between DreamWorks and Miramax over whether Miramax "bought" the Best-Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love by spending record sums on advertising. There was a big wager too. DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG bet WARREN BEATTY that Miramax would print more ads by a certain date than DreamWorks would run to hype rival Saving Private Ryan. The stakes: a $10,000 contribution to the charity of the winner's choice. When the deadline rolled around, Beatty claimed victory. (Miramax's final tally was 118 pages, vs. 165 for DreamWorks.) Katzenberg alleged a miscount...
...blockmates were among the Crimson faithful at Meehan on Saturday and they arrived a little after game time. They placed a wager on how many goals they had missed...
...this company, and I've done it my own way for years and years. I've built something here, and I've got a lot more to build. I bet on myself, I bet on this company." Give him this much: so far, that's been a pretty good wager...
...Boyce `00, fell into the hearty habit his freshman year because of a bet. Some of his classmates noticed he was donning shorts frequently and offered to buy him hot chocolate if he could hold out on wearing pants until December first. Not one to turn down a wager, Boyce accepted the challenge. To keep himself warmer he would wear a long, heavy, green coat over his bare legs. "I looked like a flasher," Boyce says. To this day, he admits that "once December rolls around, that's about...
...Vegas really buy some class and still attract the gaming classes? Or is this one crapshoot Sin City can't win? Las Vegas has no choice but to take the wager. It can no longer afford to be a casino-centric town, although the numbers seem to indicate otherwise. Last year some 30.5 million visitors spent $25 billion in Las Vegas and Clark County, including $6.2 billion on gambling, which was up from $5.7 billion two years before. But the gaming take along the Strip has gone from 58% of total revenues 10 years ago to 53% today. That...