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...online-betting site World Sportsbook usually sticks to wagers on football, baseball and hockey, but with President Clinton now in the penalty box, he too is fair game. The site (at worldsportsbook.com) based in St. Johns, Antigua, lets players wager on whether the President will resign or be impeached. As of last Friday, the odds had impeachment as the least likely scenario, with resignation second least likely...
...between Daimler-Benz and Chrysler [BUSINESS, May 18] is far more ominous. A close look reveals the disturbing truth. The new company will be incorporated in Germany. After a three-year transition period of co-chairmanship, a single chairman will take charge of the company. That chairman, you can wager, will come from Daimler-Benz. In short, Chrysler has been "bought" by Daimler-Benz. As a result, another great name in America's manufacturing history will gradually fade into oblivion. With only two American auto manufacturers left, we are at risk of losing the automobile industry, much as we have...
That's why Baxter and his colleagues are betting that the public will be more excited by yesterday's heroic tomorrow than today's more jaundiced one. Given that the nation's most prominent exemplar of earnest, old-fashioned futurism is Al Gore, it's not a bad wager...
...sort of keeping our fingers crossed because of the fatigue levels of the guys coming out of exams," Fish said. "In a perfect world this wouldn't happen. And by playing here, if you were a betting person making a friendly wager, the conditions would definitely favor Georgia...
...confidence in his economy. Jakarta has repeatedly reneged on reforms, particularly those requiring the dismantling of lucrative monopolies controlled by Suharto's children and close friends. By telling the IMF that he wants aid on his terms and not theirs, Suharto has effectively bet Indonesia's entire economy, a wager so outlandish that foreign bankers in Jakarta have trouble concealing their admiration for his audacity even as they despair of his cavalier approach to balance-sheet realities. His brinkmanship has scared the IMF, which sees its worldwide credibility put at risk, and terrified other Asian countries, which fear that Suharto...