Word: wagers
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...confetti flurried. It's one of his favorite lines, and usually it provokes a quibble: Isn't that your name on the buttons and your face on the T-shirts? But as a closing note for this historic convention, it was another selection of perfect words. This is the wager the Democrats have pushed to the center of the table this week: that they can make this election not about...
...Amos Tversky, who studied behavioral economics. Kahneman and Tversky found that people don't always behave in the rational manner that the classical economic models predict. When they get ahead in the game, they may begin to get conservative--playing it safe even when the odds say a big wager is likely...
...During the Trinity Test of the original atomic bomb, Enrico Fermi playfully offered a wager on “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world...
...speech as part of her time as a spring visiting fellow at the IOP. Edwards specifically pointed to how she felt Delaware Senator Joe Biden’s presidential campaign had been hindered by a lack of media coverage. “On his behalf, I want to wager a complaint with the press of the United States for failing to treat that candidacy seriously,” Edwards said. She said that the press had focused on topics that should not be related to people’s political decisions. “Being well-informed, you might know...
...ultimate outcome in Iraq is out of the hands of Petraeus and the U.S. military. After a yearlong surge, the U.S. is about to move from the relatively safe ground of betting on its troops to betting on Iraqis. And that's a very different kind of wager...