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However, on Tuesday he gave a straight "Yes" to a question about whether he would accept a wild card.

And while Mr. Huang was a wild card, Bain knew it had the support of the new chairman, Mr. Chen, as well as the board.

S. oil inventory data, due out Wednesday from the Department of Energy, also is something of a wild card.

'Mr. Mendoza was not just a wild-card crazy man, ' said Mr. Fink. 'In a society without recourse for justice, people will do crazy things. '

A playing CARD, usually printed with a picture of a jester, used in certain games as the highest - ranking CARD or as a wild CARD.

First-time Riesling drinkers may find this wine a bit of a wild card.

I thought I could count on my mother for sympathy, but she's a wild card in any equation, including the politics of a China boycott.

Dr. Pepperberg has thrown a wild card into studies of consciousness with her controversial experiments with African gray parrots.

That to me is a wild card for 2010, especially as you move toward the mid-term elections.

It is still a wild card for Tony to be able to find Er Quan.

It was Mr Mutambara who briefly emerged as a wild card, with officials from Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF saying he had struck a separate deal.

A wild card remains whether neighboring Asian countries would allow their currencies to rise in tandem with a yuan appreciation.

To enter a String value using the like operator, type directly into the value field using the % character as a wild card for a text pattern.

The search will run as if a wild card is appended to the search term.

And abortion, until recently an electoral problem only for Ms Rousseff, is now a wild card.

Cultural differences can be a wild card for Western exhibitors .

Dai said this was a hope, though it was a wild card.

"Did I think I could reach the semi-finals when I was given a wild card? No. " Zheng said. "I cannot believe I have got this far. "

Jim Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy, a utility company based in Charlotte, N. C. , is a wild card in the electricity sector.

Congress is considering a proposal to extend the tax credit. But before a deal is cut, it remains a wild card for markets.

The poor health of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, adds a wild card.

Moreover, proactive capital raisings on the back of share-price rallies, to face down lingering balance-sheet fears, remain a wild card.

You might think that the solution would be to use a "wild card" as a default value, but XPath doesn't recognize that, either.

It will have a series of specs that include a priority number and a wild card expression to match a load name or names.

A wild card is what Col. Gadhafi's apparent fall from power means in other oil-rich countries.

The six-times world title-holder was given a wild card to the professional tour after winning her last 61 matches.

The weather can be a wild card, too.

A wild card is China, the world's largest aluminum consumer, which usually produces about 16 million metric tons yearly.

Yahoo's stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan throw a wild card into that mix.

He had planned to miss Monte Carlo but has accepted a wild card.

Consumer prices could be a wild card for 2011.

The price of gasoline remains a wild card for the future of small cars.

As we will see, Scala uses _ as a "wild card" in several contexts.

They are considered a wild card generation.

No worse than the second-best player in the world, Henin is a wild card in this event because of lack of points.

There is, however, a wild card.

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As April approaches, a wild card will be Ms Bettencourt's feud with her daughter, Franç