Considering that the future of the nation is very much tied to our ability to educate our citizens, you bet it is a national crisis.
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Traders get paid lavishly when they make the right bet but it is always OPM when the bet goes wrong.
Santander is a bold bet given that it is a major player in the overheated Spanish housing market.
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Doing so many trials at once is a big bet, he says, but it is a rational bet, given the promising early results.
But in Mr Buffett's case it doesn't matter, because Berkshire Hathaway can easily cover the bet even if it is bad: the company has a huge capital cushion.
If it wants to work with multiple content providers on the other hand, there is a good bet it might work with a company like Education Elements, which is emerging as a leader in helping schools move to blended-learning models and offering a single sign-on software solution for schools so they can easily work with multiple content vendors.
If these feelings coincide with each dose of Xanax and improve as the hours pass, it is a good bet that Xanax is the culprit.
However, it is a bet emboldened by the knowledge that there is an emergency room nearby that has to take you in should something go wrong with the plan not to get sick or seriously injured.
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When velocity goes down it is a sure bet that a recession is right around the corner.
Or that it is really "her" laptop, I bet money he is the one who paid for it!
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His money is tremendously safer if it is bet in a regular casino.
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Add to that DVD sales (not to mention Muppet merchandise) and you can bet Disney is confident it made the right deal.
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It is bet on the 5-to-10-year-and-beyond future of sub-Saharan Africa.
Judging from online comments whenever an Assange story appears, it is a safe bet that the "U.S. is out to get him" rhetoric from the "support Julian" camp is hitting home.
But the developer is assuring us that the product will survive the end of Google Reader and my bet is that it and its competitors will actually thrive without the Google Reader bigfoot in their way.
It is unfashionable to bet against Apple winning out in the innovation race, but in this case Microsoft is in a strong place.
It is a safe bet that every foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company doing business with terrorist states will claim it is one of the ones Sen.
And the last thing anyone should want is an early answer: Merck's best bet, as it has long argued, is to fight long and hard, one battle at a time, in the hopes of winning a long war.
But if you are a Wharton professor, it is a pretty certain bet that you have a great deal of knowledge that is not shared by the general public.
The best bet is for the IT team to lead the way.
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But with a 6-year head start in mapping and complete control of the hardware and the operating software, it is plausible bet.
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There are also those in the wings with another product to flog: a foreign-exchange derivative which, because it is a bet settled for cash, also reduces Herstatt risk.
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