Word: wagers
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...ardent New York Mets fan, Mandery also enjoys betting on horse and dog races. Friends say that he is just as interested in the science of betting as he is with the actual wager. "I like thinking numerically," Mandery says. "I like anything that pretends to be a science...
...very stuff of life. Life needs diversity because of the interdependencies that link flora and fauna, and because variation within species allows them to adapt to environmental challenges. But even as the world's human population explodes, other life is ebbing from the planet. Humanity is making a risky wager -- that it does not need the great variety of earth's species to survive...
...ocean view he knows he must face through her first-class porthole, reluctantly drags himself to his duty. He listens: "She confessed that she had attended rooms in Drury Lane for the purposes of playing fan- tan." He leaps to her, and his, defense: "Our whole faith is a wager, Miss Leplastrier . . . we bet that there is a God. We bet our life...
...doing, the Merrill Lynch trader seemingly gambled on a go-for-broke strategy. Without his employer's permission, he plunged in deeper, buying up $800 million more of the securities in the hope that an interest-rate turnaround would bring enough profits to bail out all his losses. His wager failed spectacularly. When Merrill Lynch announced the episode last week, the firm estimated its losses at $250 million, possibly the largest single trading deficit in Wall Street history...
Into this slightly sleazy scene come Salvation Army Sergeant Sarah Brown (Sarah Beatty) determined to rescue the gamblers from their sinning ways, and Sky Masterson (Andrew Gardner), a gambler who bets as high as his name. As a result of a wager, this disparate pair finds itself flying to Cuba. Of course, they end up falling in love, and all sorts of plot tangles and twists follow. Despite his reputation, Sky turns out to be more a gentleman than a gambler, and he stakes his fortune to save Sarah's mission...