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...ongoing quest for an Internet bogeyman, pornography still gets the most ink, but gambling is where the action will be. Online betting--primarily through Websites that let you wager on sports events, enter lotteries and play casino games--is still in its infancy. Between $100 million and $200 million will be gambled online this year worldwide, says Whittier Law School professor and gaming-industry expert I. Nelson Rose. That's just a tiny portion of the national habit, of course. Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more...
...thought that I has to be sure that my answer was right in order to wager so much," Chan said. He correct answer, "What is the Naval Academy," was followed by his room address, Canaday...
Unfortunately, some developments in the Middle East peace process are less publicized than others, which inevitably leads to bias and misapprehensions. Thus, while most of us know enough to react with indignation to the mention of Noam Friedman, I would wager that very few of us know what to make of the name of Etta Tzur...
...Vicomte de Valmont (Bryan Leach '00). These two connivers, who are obviously meant for each other, spend much of the show trading quips. Their relationship is based on a twisted love: rather than acting on their mutual feelings, they compete against each other. Merteuil and Valmont make a wager that involves deceiving and seducing most of the other members of the cast. The problem is that they cannot avoid becoming entangled in their own web, and their game becomes dangerous and destructive...
Gerstner, in contrast, still believes in big iron. He is making a huge wager that the flood of interest in the Internet and internal networks (intranets) will produce a surge in demand for the sort of giant computers only IBM can make and maintain. The prediction evokes some scary memories at company headquarters in Armonk, New York; it's exactly the same bet the company made in the early '80s, when it wagered billions that the mainframe market was due for growth. The decision almost killed the company. Gerstner at least has stripped away the division's techno-worshipping culture...