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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One British bookmaker is even offering 10, 000-1 odds that disgraced American cyclist Lance Armstrong will be chosen to head up the church.
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.
Just as the Versailles Treaty produced not a lasting peace but an interlude between and pretext to war, so the Vance-Owen "peace plan" will assure the future outbreak of regional hostilities -- even if succeeds (against all odds) in temporarily suspending the present ones.
Our square root formula says that, if Romney were as popular in New York as the incumbent, the odds of a dead-even result are 3, 300 to 1 against.
The powerful reported significantly higher lottery winnings than the low-power group, even though both groups had the same odds of winning.
And even if they do get more, odds are that low-income families as a group will get less care than if there had never been a health reform law in the first place.
In the case of alcohol, there's clear evidence that heavy drinking is harmful -- and even a daily glass of wine may increase the odds of a baby being born underweight, which carries additional risks to its health.
And even if Mr Stoltenberg battles on, the odds against his re-election next year have risen.
Whatever the odds of a Pfizer-Amgen merger are (even Pfizer and Amgen probably don't know for sure), they are the same today as they were before Bristol made its bid.
Even though the odds are against it, Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people ) CEO Richard C.
But even with that recent success, odds are against GM making Buick a go-to option for large numbers of drivers below the age of 50.
But the revelation of "Against the Odds" is that so many individual American Jews, and even some non-Jews, stepped up, and worked tirelessly to save European relatives, friends and total strangers from the looming disaster.
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Does it allow that a relative handful of people of color will overcome the odds and find middle-class success comparable to the median white family or even better?
Ending on a positive note, the realty is that even after the loss of a loved one, whether by death or break-up, the odds of recovery are in your favor.
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And yet Shell proudly advertises itself as a corporation deeply concerned with developing clean energy and ensuring a viable energy future, even going to great lengths to organize well-branded "eco-marathons" completely at odds with its relentless fossil fuel extraction.
So Moy, the 42-year-old president of NSS Labs, wants to let the laws of supply and demand even the odds.
The SPX defied the odds and closed higher for the week, even though the first leg of a five-week expiration cycle has an historical tendency for stocks to trade lower.
"There were a couple of times during my 40-year career where people wouldn't have given very good odds on the private rail system even surviving, " Chairman Goode says.
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