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The catch was that investment banks were taking what turned out to be life-threatening gambles.

Obama would be ready to take further gambles on his personal popularity, Sutley said.

Now she wishes she'd listened to me. He drinks and gambles and she wants to leave him.

It was the steepest and gravest of gambles with the future of his Navy and his country.

George Soros sets aside a proportion of the profits from his financial gambles to fund educational foundations and other good works.

Things can still go wrong at companies like these, but conservative management avoids bet-the-company gambles.

Anyone who gambles on the stock exchange has to be prepared to lose money.

If you accepted 100 gambles like this, you are virtually certain to end up with a substantial gain.

And if there was ever a moment in the calendar when it seems foolish to embark on market gambles, August is surely that point.

I guess like a lot of Americans, I underestimate my own appetite for novelty and the gambles that come with the new.

Her story recalls the vision and manoeuvrings, strategy and gambles, diplomacy and dangers, courage and pettiness of those dramatic days.

Eventually he gambles away all his money and has to borrow a quarter from another gambler just to use the men's room.

Recent big gains of the above managers aside, global macro is not a strategy that gambles on making big killings.

Li guang ming: I can often win in gambles , only this time i lose too much. Since so, we leave here immediately and let him fire the house.

In Life times (1994), another film by Zhang Yimou, the spoiled son of a wealthy family gambles away all of his father's fortunes.

The media empire is built around his gambles and opinions, with little regard to what others think.

The man who gambles upon the exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table.

Led by Disney, they are cutting back on the number of movies they produce, making the gambles they do take all the more risky.

Maybe his salary has decreased or he gambles or spends all his money on drink.

One problem: Regulators took at face value assurances from banks that they had enough capital to back up their financial gambles.

Open-ended insurance of weakly regulated institutions that take complex gambles is intolerable.

Porsche has made a few gambles that paid off in the past, most notably the Cayenne.

Very few personal finance writers will talk about taking some gambles because slow and steady can often win the race.

Once home prices began their decline, however, these calculations were exposed as gambles gone bad.

Average athlete who gambles too much on defense and struggles guarding post.

We are all involved in gambles of some kind, whether we want to be or not.

But gambles taken in the fog of a financial crisis can also prove horribly misguided.

Design contests are obviously huge gambles for the designers.

In one experiment, the truckers were asked to choose between gambles and certain payoffs.

He thinks the hebolong can win, and gambles five Schillings with me.

or the baseball star who gambles on his own games.

If Tesco gambles small and wins, competitors will have time to copy it before it reaches critical mass.

If Tesco gambles small and wins, competitors will havetime to copy it before it reaches critical mass.

Casino operators have taken some big gambles. Who will clean up?

He gambles when he is in cash.

Establishes one kind of reasonable administrative law order the process, in fact is the process which a citizen and the government gambles.

More often, price wars are reckless gambles.

When building a Chinese road map there are many gambles and unknowns.

who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks, hey.

As gambles go, it's probably a decent one.

Amid a big slump, the UK is set to make two massive gambles in economic policy.

The latest example of problem-solving in a career built on gambles is today's launch of a free newspaper in Hong Kong called Sharp Daily.

The size of the gambles that President Obama is taking every day is simply staggering.

Some 20% of Caucasians have an allele that can make them respond more intensely to gambles, even when no skill is involved.

Individual Preferences, Monetary Gambles, and Stock Market Participation: A Case for Narrow Framing By: Barberis, Nicholas; et al

Characteristics of Crime of Network Gambles and Countermeasures to Them

Following are examples of "games" in our common sense, i. e. , gambles and sports: