At least most sports books will give you even odds with that one.
But given the arsenal each side has built, observers say there are better-than-even odds of a settlement.
So you see, folks, even odds-makers need a little bit of luck to win in Vegas once in awhile.
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If I was handicapping the outcome of this case based on what I have told you so far, I would have put it at even odds.
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"It's the class of 2009 and 2010 who are now going to face...even harder odds, " she says.
So Moy, the 42-year-old president of NSS Labs, wants to let the laws of supply and demand even the odds.
And then maybe -- just maybe -- today, more of our young people would be in classrooms and at jobs, instead of in custody, facing even worse odds than they started out with.
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Wambugu overcame long odds even to get the education she needed for this venture.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small, " he said.
Even when the odds are bad, individual patients can survive a long time, or vice versa.
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Clearly, mining production and production growth can overwhelm the odds even in a commodity bear market.
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Even though the odds are against it, Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people ) CEO Richard C.
Mr. Panetta struggled with the uncertainty, one official said, but concluded the American public would back an operation even if the odds were only 50-50.
The willingness to keep trying even against the odds is admirable.
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By the way, Intrade also is quoting even more certain odds that the Republicans will keep control of the House and the ditto the Democrats with the Senate.
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In sports and in gambling there is a mistaken belief that a player who is performing better than normal will continue to play well, even if the odds suggest otherwise.
Schools are supposed to even out the odds among children of different backgrounds, but by the time migrant children arrive at Thomas Morus, its director thinks, it is almost too late.
In an era where Danica Patrick can contend against men in motor sports, Silberman is about to take a big kick forward for female athletes, even if the odds are clearly stacked against her.
Like all Englishmen, Button is closely watching the weather forecast in the hope that McLaren might profit from what could be a wet race at the Sepang International Circuit to even up the odds for the British team.
That number decreases with every failed attempt, so now my odds are even lower.
If the Orange enters the tourney as less than a top seed, their odds are even lower.
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And even with the long odds, the responsibility for paying the claim may be split among several insurers.
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Even if you beat the odds and win, your tax problem could be a doozey.
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What surely makes it even sweeter is that the odds were stacked against Chelsea from the outset.
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European technology firms are used to envying their American rivals, even to paying over the odds for them.
Even if, against all odds, the Kremlin were to agree to curbs on tactical nuclear weapons, their relatively small size and ease of portability means that any such limitations would be inherently unverifiable.
Even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
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