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It is better for the parties to be talking than not talking, but a betting man would not favour the chances of a breakthrough to peace.

'My worry is that current thinking is betting too much on social spending as a way to get out of this problem, ' he said.

Many Wall Street insiders are betting that ultimately Goldman's investment arm will be spun out of the bank.

Nonetheless, Facebook is betting on the social web and is trying to consolidate its early advantage.

This racing is usually purely for entertainment, and betting is not part of it.

The president said he remains hopeful. "If I was a betting man, [I would say] we will reach an agreement with the Iraqis, " he added.

They would not be so prosperous without the billions they made betting against the fanciful financial instruments mentioned above.

The insurers and the drug companies are, in effect, betting that Mr. Obama will be afraid to call them out on their duplicity.

The securitisation of mortgages was an innovation that led unwittingly to what Wall Street calls "betting the company" .

Government-bond investors seem to be betting on a combination of recession and deflation.

The number of oil option contracts betting on oil hitting $200 a barrel in December have tripled since the beginning of the year.

In other words, they were betting that just about all the ill effects of the credit squeeze had already shown up in third-quarter profits.

I told him, 'we're doing Windows. ' I said to him, 'we're betting our company on graphics interface'.

You know this in theory, but I'm betting you don't apply it as often as you should.

Morgan Stanley borrowed more, as its chief, John Mack, was complaining that the bank was target of speculators betting it would fail.

They seem to be betting on whatever did worst during the sell-off and whatever would benefit from a rebound in the economy.

I'm not sure how much that will help, but I am betting it will help quite a bit.

Selling the dollar, buying emerging markets, or betting against subprime were all simple strategies that worked throughout the year.

Tentative as it was, the race meeting in November was a significant move towards opening the country's vast betting market.

Luxury goods companies seem to be betting on both scenarios, as well as trying new approaches to tap the rising class of consumers.

It is impossible to say how much Americans spend on illegal betting, but estimates run as high as $380 billion.

I need the ability as someone who has no experience in coding to be able to update and remove betting options daily.

The unit recently staged something of a comeback by betting on smartphones running Android, an operating system developed by Google.

As I said, a betting man would not favour the chances of a rapid breakthrough after the Washington summit.

From a macroeconomic perspective, investors seem to be betting on the worst case scenario.

His advisers argued that this was justified as he planned to dissolve the house and return power to the people, betting on victory.

Nevertheless, he said he's betting on the general approach as the promising future of security technology.

He couldn't say precisely how much of the portfolio underlying the deal was designed by Paulson & Co. , the hedge fund betting on a decline.

The court also held that there was a conflict of interest, since Deutsche was both advising the client and, in effect, betting against it.

He told me that his father spends lots of time on betting, and so he has no chance to talk with him even in holidays.

I'm betting my life that Jesus is who he said he was.

The Internet has now made it so that you don't even have to call up a bookie and place your bet; you can simply login and start betting.

And for those betting on emerging millionaires, western luxury goods firms might be the best Christmas present available.

Traders had also been betting that the rest of the eurozone lacked the political will to help its southern neighbours through the crisis.

But we're betting that the field is going to have to adapt to post-Instant world (see How Will Google Instant Affect Your Company's SEO? ).

He knew they were busy betting in the harvest. He might as well go and join them.

GM remained one of the few auto companies betting sales will pick up in the second half of the year.

Bored living alone in a little farmhouse, he came up with a model for a betting exchange.

Another disappointment was that our additional request for Government to consider reducing the horse race betting duty rate was rejected.

And I'm just betting that, sooner or later, this particular recession is going to be old news.

Your local VC might not like this format , but I'm betting it will help your team think through the hard issues more clearly .

Money management is really about not betting so much that you run out of money before the good trends come.

Matsuo is betting that his model will be as compelling to others around the region as it is to his Japanese clients.

I think the government should discourage football betting rather than make it a legal activity.

So far, so reassuring, at least for anyone betting that China will catch the capitalist bug.

Everyone seems to be betting the ranch on cost-effective technology to clean up coal.

In other words , you have been a winner this year whether you were betting on inflation or deflation .

"If I was a betting man, I'd say the bail-out will come soon to help the airline remain operational. "

I'm not as confident those graphs are going to hold up for fields besides computer science, so I'd be leery of betting on a date.

The company is heavily invested in low-power technologies and is betting on a growing market for energy-smart electronics.

Easy to add other sports for betting to the system.

By Monday, currency-derivative traders were betting the yuan will be 3% stronger against the dollar in a year's time.

She said, "I'm betting she won't need another twenty-four hours to understand she can't find a story here. "

By then, Peak and friends are betting they will be ready to move into the gem markets of Beijing and Shanghai.

In the world of horse racing, the goal of every gambler is to gain a lot of money by betting on the right horse to win.

What's the betting that you and I aren't rolling rocks before that lark comes down again?

Facebook seems to be betting on future generations.

Investors are betting that the deep recession feared early in August will not occur, or at least not soon.

In effect, policy makers are betting that the private sector can make up for the withdrawal of stimulus over the next couple of years.

It would be better if the newspapers ran the betting information in a separate supplement on football gambling, like that on horse racing.

The evidence against ethanol is clear. Now the White House is betting on the next generation of biofuels.

He has gone further than perhaps any other major investor, betting the majority of his wealth on gold and other precious metals.

Failing a resolution in the next few weeks, some smart money is betting that the whole issue could be deferred until the autumn.

It has been a controversial topic on the legalization of football betting.

Meanwhile, betting and casino company Mansion have pulled out of talks over a major sponsorship deal with United.

In such a setup, the buyers assume that someone will be betting against the bonds, so the quality of the underlying credit is key.

Since he inherited the fortune from his uncle, the childish gambler has kept betting instead of making a deposit and paying off his loan.

Fifty-Fifty : A guessing game where you keep betting money with a spectator on the locations of a big key and a small key.

Betting on such an outcome is a highly risky strategy, and I'm not suggesting it is an especially likely outcome.

The betting odds were that GM's planners were either war gaming how it would fold Chrysler in to the company or cut spending.

Some pin Howrey's demise on its rush to spend on foreign offices while betting heavily on antitrust law just as M&A was falling off a cliff.

The man who made $1bn in a day by betting against the Bank of England always thought he was set apart.

IF INDIA were a nation of gamblers, the betting on who will succeed Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata group, would be furious.

A year later, her daughter Bonnie was born, Rhett Butler to all who love betting to Bonnie.

I'm betting Oprah's new way to pay it forward is going to catch on like wildfire-and how glorious if it does.

The volume of betting on such an obscure match forced Betfair to act, but Davydenko has his own theory to explain the irregularities.

Top Anglo shareholders rejected Xstrata's call for "a merger of equals, " betting that initial proposal was just an opening play.

Traders have been betting that Republicans will take control of at least the House of Representatives.

You're essentially betting that you will be able to deploy the code at the end of the project.

Im not a betting man , but would not be surprised if it looks F-22esque.

Betting exchanges operate somewhat like an eBay for betting, allowing punters to offer odds and then matching them with takers.

The party is betting that the presidential race will turn into a battle for younger voters.

I possess an online betting website programmed in the ASP programming language and I need an upgrade in 2 parts of the website.

Mahmudiya is safe today, but given our personal experience of its recent history, Rawlings and I aren't betting it will stay that way.

Betting would be permitted in bars, restaurants and petrol stations. Racetracks and perhaps airports could have slot machines.

Speculators are increasingly betting that the eurozone crisis could escalate as short positions against the euro rose to a fresh record.

The net stake receipts derived from the conduct of authorized betting on football matches by an authorized company.

The parrot was always silent. Joe was very angry and had to pay a pound to each of his betting friends.

We're betting any aspiring artist will take that deal over three years of putting up with stuck-up assholes at art schools.

The Justice Department appears to think betting against the euro is somehow more suspicious than being 'long' health care.

That suggests an efficient response both to news and to the absence of news, in sports betting markets at least.

Local navigation service providers are betting on the Compass system to carve out a bigger niche at home.

Enthusiasm for betting has rebounded "like a stretched string" after the long ban.

A new company is offering college students a chance to make a little cash on the side -- by betting on their own performances.

Betting the mortgage on something that may or may not happen in two years more often than not leads to bankruptcy.

So managers have an even bigger economic interest in "going for broke" or "betting the bank" than shareholders.

The betting in Washington, DC, until this week was that health reform was dead in all but name.

Financial institutions are no longer betting the house on risky investments they do not understand.

As the number of prominent online attacks rises, analysts and venture capitalists are betting that corporate spending patterns will change.

People who like attempting football betting are going to be interested in playing football.

But everybody's got -- and I believe in a pluralistic society -- everybody's betting on something.

And with the advent of betting on mobile phones, even more of the market is moving beyond the taxman's reach.

This is why markets may be inefficient and yet private investors cannot easily make money betting against them.

Perhaps for that reason, most economists are betting that Germany will eventually do whatever is necessary to end the crisis.

The Big Three automakers are still standing, and at least the two biggest among them, GM and Ford, are betting on electrification.

While inflation expectation is causing part of the investor community to act, the rest are betting on strong economic recovery to come.

So in general, yes, diet betting seems to work for some people.

Have experience with betting sites, at least needs to know how betting system works.

There has been a massive build-up of "short" positions betting on a fall in the the yen.

To try to mislead (opponents) In a card game by heavy bettIng on a poor hand or by little or no bettIng on a good one.

Samsung sure hopes so as it's betting heavily on the OS in its battle with Nokia to make cheap smartphones globally accessible.

Analysts also are betting that the U. S. steel industry will continue to shut or idle plants to better match supply with demand.

However, its unsavory dealmaking should not obscure that in betting, correctly, against the housing market, it helped mitigate the crash.

You do not need to understand a complex system of betting, as in craps.

As long as you know the basics and you are familiar with the betting procedure, you should do fine.

At the start of the year, traders were betting that the central bank would start to cut interest rates by the middle of the year.

It is betting that it is better to do a simple thing today . . . than to do a more complicated thing today that may never be used anyway.

The Bank Group is betting on a large untapped potential in these markets.

Ms Nooyi is betting that Russian consumers still have lots of catching up to do.

The trader is betting the long position will either rise more or fall less than the short one.

Life insurance is not really betting although it can be compared to it. You pay the money just in case.

Betting against Japan has been a losing proposition for many investors for years.

In spite of evident concern over inflation, investors are betting that this growth could survive even a downturn in the US.

Investors have been betting in recent weeks that the weaker economic reports will translate into smaller earnings that previously thought.

Indeed, Japan appears to be betting that these initiatives will steer China toward a more flexible yuan.

If you think about it, betting money on cards is a lot like making a high-risk investment.

With the Kelly Criterion, you are always betting percentages of your bankroll so as your bankroll grows, so do your bets.

To count on the small family farm as an important thing in the American future now looks like betting on the wrong horse.

Let's take a look at five technologies that e-reader makers are betting on to keep their products relevant.

We know John Paulson made $1 billion betting against mortgages using one of these CDOs.

And, of course, the public offering meant Goldman was often betting with other people's money.

I'm also betting those high-capacity models will look more like the iPod touch, and less like my iPod classic.

Inflation might mean a faster pace of appreciation in the months ahead, but investors betting on a one-off move are riding for a fall.

It involves betting against the deviations and for a return to normalcy.

With the Fed preparing to pump more money into the financial system, the scales are starting to tip in favor of those betting on inflation.

Up until recently, Goldman has had a magic touch, betting correctly that subprime mortgages would crater and nimbly avoiding other messes.

The group has seen racing operations shut down in the past as unauthorized betting went too far, notably in Beijing in 2005.

Perhaps this is because betting on geopolitical worries in recent years has turned out to be a mug's game.

The deal will clear the way for Ladbrokes to begin targeting the lucrative US market with its online betting and gaming products.

If you were a betting man, who would you bet on to win this tournament now?

His name is Simpson and he comes from a good family, but wastes all his money on betting.

"I know people who lost everything betting on recycling, " she said.

Betting against the Aussie has been a loner's game for the past few years.

Bryan Aldridge is betting that the recession will encourage more bosses to think like Mr Charles.

The bottom line is--yes, you can feel confident about betting your career on open source.

I was betting that I'd be able to find everything else I could possible want to wear once I got here to Palm Springs.

So the bad circulation still goes around, one more round, betting once more.

But Mr Dennis is betting that by the time the new McLaren sports cars go on sale in 2011, economies will be recovering.

Intrade, an online betting firm, gave him a 70% chance of winning the nomination (against 11% for Mr Perry and just over 7% for Mr Cain).

Soros, who earned $1 billion in 1992 by betting against the British pound, said current currency arrangements are "fraught with danger. "

Second, shouldn't the interest on the loan wipe out the profit from such a tiny betting margin?

As the Okanagan Valley has flourished, Mr. Kennedy is betting the good fortune will reach north to his spread.

Mr. Munger gave Mr. Li some of his family's nest egg to invest to open a 'value' fund betting on beaten-down stocks.

A desire to protect existing businesses from such disruption is one motive for banning online betting: Vegas knows how to protect its turf.

Of course, Julius Bear, which is betting part of its future in Asia, has an incentive to pump up the projections.

But while punters are returning to the tables as the economy recovers, they are still betting less than before.

However, if you win by betting on the banker, the bank receives a 5% commission.

Antigua maintained the US would have to outlaw all forms of remote gambling, including interstate betting on horse races, to comply.

Considering he is scoring at the rate of almost a goal a game, I certainly won't be betting against him joining Best in the record books!

Called "pairs trading, " it involves betting on two stocks that have a strong historical relationship.

He says many investors, including foreigners, are buying properties today betting that prices will go on rising.

By helping users find information faster, the company is betting they will conduct more searches.

US markets also looked set to open down with futures traders betting the markets would open below Friday's closing prices.

Illegal online betting, with civil servants taking part, crept into sports like tennis, badminton and basketball as well as football.

As with any highflying stock, though, a few investors are actively betting on a reversal of fortune.

The betting is that the country will have another election within a year.

Bellick causes a disturbance at a betting window of a racetrack to distract security.

It should not be too often restated that betting , no matter what kind of betting, will give rise to many problems .

Yet Bulgari is betting that the city of 4m people also now boasts many new fortunes waiting to be spent on luxury watches and jewels.

Specifically, we propose that any licence for authorised horse race betting activities should include a number of mandatory conditions.

It was then that I realized it was basically a hedge fund, betting on the decline of interest rates.

The police seized some $6 million worth of betting slips in a territory-wide operation against soccer bookmaking .

One defence lawyer Mark Geragos added: "If I was a betting man, I'd bet Murray gets the whole four years. "

When property values were rising, many investors were only prepared to buy or "go long" , betting on further appreciation.

An investigator for the Union of European Football Association raised concerns, including suspicions over betting patterns.

Are the investors that trigger this downward spiral by betting on the Greek default via CDSs as harmful to society as governments suggest?

Yet, there is one important difference: in the case of financial institutions the betting can become self-validating.

Starting from the next horse racing season , betting duty on exotic bets will be imposed at the new rate .

So right now, the Korean markets are betting on potential, both for the companies, and for the country's ability to export its culture.

It's hard to understand what keeps problem gamblers betting after a long losing streak.

Because sports betting is a game of chance, betting is always risky.

These unrepentant bears are used to betting against the consensus and are not put off by the rally.

"I'm betting three hundred, " said the boy gravely.

So far this year, betting on consumer spending has worked out, even as most consumers work to cut debt.

Risk reversals, which show a bias for puts over call options, suggest investors are betting on a drop in the euro instead of a rise.

Investors are already betting that RIM may be the next to get bought.

Gaudy marketing claims aside, those betting on Detroit's dominance of electric cars should prepare for a shock.

For trait selection, Dr. Steinberg is now betting on a new approach for screening embryos.

And my counsel is to stay away from betting this far in advance on the Republican side.

But Iran, perched on a cushion of high oil revenues, is betting on staring them out, all the while perfecting its enriching skills.

Analyst warned however, that betting solely on onshore gas producers based on the BHP takeover today would be a flawed strategy.

Marc Chandler, at Brown Brothers Harriman, says investors are likely to make more money by betting with the HKMA than against it.

Others are betting against Japan, at least in the short run.

Heed their counsel, accept their invitation, give it your best shot, and I'm betting you'll never go back.

Many people are betting on functional programming, with its emphasis on immutable objects and their inherently thread-safe properties.

Steve Ballmer gave a live webcast today and said that Microsoft is betting its future on the cloud.

Also in his camp: John Paulson, the hedge-fund manager who made billions betting mortgage-backed securities would implode. Mr.

Intel plans to fully invest the new fund in three to five years, and is betting China will continue to grow even as other economies slow.

Motorola is betting heavily on Android to turn around a years-long drought of hit products.

While South Korea is betting that North Korea will do nothing in response to the drill, it has proceeded carefully.

Hedge funds and other investors made bundles of money in the 1990s betting currency pegs around the world would break.

financial planner, who built what he calls a 'terrific' track record betting heavily on international stocks.

Now that political betting is back in vogue, volumes are rapidly growing.

Betting with a local soccer bookmaker is illegal , and the bet , in turn, is used to subsidize other criminal activities .

Some foreign investors are betting that Cuba is heading on an increasingly capitalist route.

Liverpool Football Club is delighted to announce it has agreed a deal for 188BET to become the official betting partner of the club.

The only possible explanation for the judges' decision to reward Mr Obama is that they are betting on his future achievements.

Adding to investors risk in betting against the dollar is a meeting of the European Central Bank on Thursday.

But while betting on the dollar has pockets of support, experts say it is still a gamble for individual investors.

Motorola is facing stiff competition and may be betting, with WiMax, on the wrong next-generation wireless technology.

Those stocks are filled with hopeful people betting that something good eventually will happen that will drive the stocks higher.

So, have we discovered something uniquely inefficient about Dutch markets, or something uniquely efficient about sports betting?

Many speculators, betting on ever-rising land prices, have parked their money in newly built offices or apartments that are largely vacant.

But other investors are betting that the Fed will be late in raising interest rates in order not to damp the nascent economic recovery.

What's the betting these socks will reappear, and turn out to have some powerful magic knitted into them?

The policy implications are clear: governments should stop betting on particular green technologies and start thinking more broadly.

Players and their families and entourages could also be banned from betting on matches.

Investors are betting Asia will expand healthily on the back of continued government stimulus and rapidly growing domestic consumption.

Most investors are betting any losses in the single currency should be limited amid expectations of rising euro zone interest rates.

Allowing some currency appreciation, as in Singapore, could help it achieve its aims and investors are betting this could happen soon.

Disclosure: These predictions look like safe bets because the potential outcomes of these topics are being traded in online betting markets.

It greatly increases the cost of betting against the debt of weak governments.

Outsiders are looking past the horizon of China's tightening program, betting that the economy will expand at a healthy clip.

Some councilors recognized this problem and suggested that football betting should be legalized .

Mercedes isn't the only luxury-car company betting consumers will go green.

Mark Hart of Corriente Advisors, a hedge fund, has bought put options on the yuan, betting that the value of the currency will decline.

The sell off though is unlikely to occur until investors start betting on an upturn and that is more likely to be in 2009.

Betting on container rates, which are a proxy for economic activity, may also appeal to speculators.

Rivals claim that the vessels are often chartered out at lower-than-market rates when TMT is betting on FFA prices to fall.

Still, Panasonic is betting that its eye-popping imagery will win over more than a few fans.

He bluffs against the timid and proceeds cautiously when players who only raise on the strongest hands are betting the limit .

Decorative screen betting everything, colorful, lifelike, the "seen, touched, never fade, " the mystery.

Mr. Li says he 'hated' betting against stocks, complaining that he had to 'trade all the time' to adjust his portfolio.

This time, instead of betting on black, perhaps I'd put the money on lucky number seven.

One might as well throw money away in water as spend it in betting.

Rooney, whose only hobby is sleeping, takes up betting on sport out of sheer boredom.

e. g. You might as well throw away your money as spend it in betting.

Yet finding such companies requires painstaking and time-consuming research and often requires betting on untried managers.

C-betting is much more powerful if you follow it up sometimes with turn barrelling.

However, Singapore's SMX is betting a similar model of solid regulation and already existing banking infrastructure will tempt traders.

AS A business model, insuring Italian drivers is right up there with betting on English World Cup victories.

It may well be betting that users are now so hooked that they are unlikely to revolt against a gradual loosening of privacy safeguards.

Mr. Kim, believed to be about 29, appears to be betting that even a third test would not change the Chinese calculus.

Carlo Rizzi: You spic slobs still betting Yankees? Tell them to stop taking in action. We lost enough money last week.

When off-track betting was first introduced, it was seen as a boon to the industry.

He also is betting on several exchange-traded funds tracking the utilities sector, which historically offers a steady dividend stream.

Paddy Power has received so many wagers on Bruce Oldfield to design the Royal wedding dress, it has suspended betting.

Paulson &Co, a fund based in New York, has done well from betting early that securities backed by subprime mortgages would fall in value.

Investors and speculators are still betting on an upward trend in property prices.

Captain Mark McCluskey sat in his office fingering three envelopes bulging with betting slips.