Word: wagers
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...reasonable person would wager that the last place Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would ever want to revisit would be North Korea. The first time he went, in September 2002, Koizumi intended to show his skill and stature as an international statesman. That backfired spectacularly when Kim Jong Il confessed unrepentantly that North Korea had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s?and had no intention of allowing the five survivors to return home. The Japanese public was outraged, the fate of the kidnap victims became Koizumi's biggest headache, and the issue cramped Japan's ability...
...Crimson needs to take three to tie, in which case it will wager its chances on a playoff. If Harvard sweeps, it will face Princeton, most likely, for a rematch of last year’s Ivy League Championship Series...
...about four years? In the meantime, the three freshman forwards can concentrate on a little wager. It seems Du, Mandes and Maki have a running competition to see who can scrape out the most points before the end of the year...
...last hurdle for Penn would be a title bout with No. 1 McNeese St. The Cowboys have won their last two games at home against unranked opponents by a paltry seven points. I’d wager that the Quakers could keep the game close as well, and who knows, maybe even pull off the jaw-dropping upset...
...Planetary protection” contains an implicit acknowledgement that scientific knowledge is never final or complete. We have been wrong before in the history of space exploration, and we should not wager our planet’s safety on the assumption that we need not worry about extraterrestrial life accidentally brought back to Earth. All of our ideas about life elsewhere are based on extrapolation from one example—Earth life—and science is not at its best when basing sweeping conclusions on a sample size of one. Although common sense strongly suggests that the threats...