But if the Leafs can gamble on throwing away an entire season to win a lottery, the Avs can gamble on trading Duchene for the same payoff.
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Amazingly, there were investors willing to gamble on my dream.
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Mr. Turnbull's gamble on a new election now looks dicey.
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In some instances, Tesla's gamble on automation has paid off.
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And low rates encourage investors to gamble on riskier companies.
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DeBartolo didn't physically harm anyone, or gamble on his team's games.
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She prefers Coca-Cola over Procter & Gamble on a valuation basis.
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The gamble on the rains is not just for finance ministers.
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As the economy improves, fewer may gamble on a radical presidency.
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There are signs that Paramount's gamble on "Rocketman" will pay off.
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Companies have been largely averse to making that gamble on Hain.
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Extremely low bond returns also forced investors to gamble on stocks.
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Time will tell whether Luxembourg's gamble on this speculative industry pays off.
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Ultimately Lightbox Ventures took the gamble on the cost intensive business model.
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That's why he took a gamble on Alex Radulov (a great move).
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Investors seem very prepared to gamble on the idea, in any case.
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With all that's at stake, America cannot take a gamble on him.
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But being allowed a third import allowed Wright to gamble on youth.
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Will his gamble on young voters pay off in the midterm elections?
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Go deeper: It's every carmaker for itself Detroit's gamble on the future
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But they also insist that their gamble on Bayer will pay off.
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Howell said he sees a reduced appetite by investors to gamble on returns.
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Everyone's under cost and schedule pressure already, so why gamble on the unproven?
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It's a daring formal gamble on Lane's part, but it doesn't completely work.
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"It was a gamble on our part and it worked," Johnson tells Axios.
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Mr Son's gamble on Mr Arora was one of two big recent bets.
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"Only in a moment of disaster would [voters] gamble on Trump," Graham wrote.
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That's all the reason not to gamble on Bristol Bay's health, he said.
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They prefer to gamble on a potential profit rather than a potential loss.
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This week, two fairs gamble on unpredictability to help break up the monotony.
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I clenched my teeth and took another gamble on my least favorite airline.
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But it's still a huge gamble on what is ultimately, a new series.
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Arriving with Gamble on her arm, Kris sported a bright blonde, chin-length bob.
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People took a gamble on Facebook before it went public; they gambled on Square.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Burberry's new boss is taking a big gamble on delayed gratification.
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Also we don't put pressure on our fighters because we don't gamble on them.
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Target execs explain how the company's $7 billion gamble on stores has paid off
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Then, pick up a Coast Packet and take a gamble on a local performance.
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But he was not the only prominent figure here to gamble on Mr. Strange.
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Social media-fueled teen musicals remain a gamble on the big stage of Broadway.
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Need to convince investors that your business venture is worth taking a gamble on?
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MILAN (Reuters Breakingviews) - Switzerland can afford to gamble on its own European Union referendum.
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But is he worth taking a gamble on if you can get him for cheap?
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They had taken a gamble on what I think was called a stencil lighting model.
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Trump's policy, then, is to gamble on some shady characters to keep Iran in check.
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I know, that's a big claim — and I don't encourage anyone to gamble on it.
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So what are the odds that this big gamble on a casino stock pays off?
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And existentially, it's a gamble on the way people will consume information in the future.
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In a league where trades are rare, Belichick loves to gamble on established NFL talents.
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Which is kind of disturbing as something that investors are willing to gamble on commercially.
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Their leaders don't yet seem ready to gamble on candidates with more liberal economic stances.
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Through the years, the families in Wanchese haven't been afraid to gamble on a hunch.
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That would be a bold gamble on the future of how viewers consume sports content.
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It's a gamble on vision and timing that looks to be coming up snake eyes.
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At a fusion restaurant, it can sometimes pay to gamble on dishes that appear dubious.
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You can trade options, gamble on currencies or jump into penny stocks and get rich.
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His expensive gamble on Sprint (S) also failed to work out as he had hoped.
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How bad are the risks for those choosing instead to gamble on that boat to Europe?
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Where better than Sin City to put these relationships to the test and gamble on love?
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An early gamble on Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, grew to more than $100 billion.
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Washington (CNN)It's the GOP's big gamble on tax reform -- and it might just pay off.
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Indeed, early stage investing relies almost solely on taking a gamble on an entrepreneur's latest idea.
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Sometimes a team will prefer to sign cheaper players as free agents and gamble on health.
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He had voted for Barack Obama, but in 2016 he took a gamble on Donald Trump.
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Fultz is so skilled (and still so young) that someone was bound to gamble on him.
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Even if it clings to power, the gamble on seeking a bigger mandate has spectacularly failed.
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But it's still taking a gamble on regulatory leniency in the era of Donald J. Trump.
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Beyond that, some Trump aides still believed a gamble on the House floor was worth the risk.
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Why it matters: Chenault will be retiring from the boards of IBM and Procter & Gamble on Feb.
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And because strawberries get planted every year, they're not such a big gamble on the changing climate.
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Pfizer is in talks with Procter & Gamble on a sale of its consumer business, sources tell CNBC.
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Those deals could encourage players to take a gamble on themselves to better control their NBA futures.
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Nor are they hustlers, the relentlessly outgoing types who quit their jobs to gamble on audacious ventures.
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He said the lesson he took from the visit was that "I could gamble" on abstract art.
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I gamble on them and I make a lot of money, because the Romans are so idiotic.
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Technically, gambling is illegal for Cambodians, but a legal loophole allows foreigners to gamble on Cambodian soil.
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To do this the other way around is a foolish global Russian roulette gamble on our survival.
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The degenerates who gamble on politics give Republicans the upper hand in keeping the Senate for a reason.
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The big picture: "It's a gamble on the part of the administration," oil analyst Ellen Wald tells Axios.
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His losing gamble on the outcome of the Iraq war also drained the prime minister of political capital.
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Procter & Gamble on the same day reported a quarterly gross margin squeeze partly due to higher commodity costs.
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Chinese gambling mecca Macau has finally roared back, and Jim Cramer is ready to gamble on casino stocks.
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Women in the game Meghalaya is not only unique for allowing its citizens to legally gamble on Teer.
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The redoubling of her effort in Iowa amounts to an all-or-nothing gamble on her performance there.
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At WBBM he helped persuade skeptical news executives to gamble on an avid advertising pitchman named Mike Wallace.
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With Google Cast, Vizio's making a huge gamble on mobile being an integral part of the TV watching experience.
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New York (CNN Business)Marlboro owner Altria's big gamble on vaping is not panning out as well as hoped.
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Urged on by Pompeo, Rubio's team pulled money out of other states to gamble on winning the Kansas caucus.
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I couldn't take the money out the account or make changes to the people I wanted to gamble on.
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Timing the sowing of a successful crop is a gamble on what breaks may come, and for how long.
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The seizure—during a surge of hostilities not unlike the present—was an audacious gamble on North Korea's part.
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That leaves fund managers who might otherwise gamble on new issuers with less capital to invest, and less flexibility.
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It's an extremely risky gamble on their ability to hold on to power over the next couple of cycles.
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Federer also took a serious gamble on one of the match points he saved while serving at 23-6.
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The former vice president repeatedly argued that this presidential race was no time to gamble on a political novice.
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Procter & Gamble on Tuesday acknowledged that discounting aimed at boosting its Gillette razor business had eaten into its sales.
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If you have more of a social safety net, you're more likely to be willing to gamble on an idea.
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"I could not gamble on a better gig because I couldn't afford for it not to work out," Knauth says.
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It was especially risky to gamble on a high school player who then might spurn the team and play internationally.
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The momager arrived with boyfriend Corey Gamble on her arm and a bright blonde, chin-length hairstyle on her head.
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By introducing a few new variables and taking an unsafe gamble on men and women from hard, hard, hardcore bands.
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If you gamble on Friday, you can split your payment between all four charities like the generous soul you are.
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But it's not in a position — yet — to gamble on the money it makes selling sports to the cable guys.
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If a user wants to gamble on the market without much information, then maybe Stockpile is the app to use.
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That will be fine as long as their low-risk/high-reward gamble on Festus Ezeli at center pans out.
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Actor and director Michael Rapaport launched his podcast almost five years ago, taking a gamble on the medium relatively early.
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Is it better to gamble on breaking up big companies, or guarantee that new rules curb some of their behavior?
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In Yamhill, plenty of well-meaning people were frustrated enough that they took a gamble on a silver-tongued provocateur.
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Leadership's unwillingness to gamble on another government shutdown, the minority party's lone meaningful recourse, has left them unarmed and aimless.
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Mr Buffett is brilliant at buying into monopoly profits, but he does not start companies or gamble on new ideas.
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However, fellow lawmakers say it's "highly unlikely" Pelosi would make a flashy partisan gamble on such an important decision. 21.
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The deal looks good now, but Sherman took a gamble on himself when he signed with the 22020ers in 113.
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Though Theresa May has lost a third gamble on a Brexit vote, there's still hope a solution can be found.
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"Uber is totally different than Lyft," Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan, managing director of the PIF, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday.
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What's more, the credit is capped in such a way that makes companies reluctant to take a gamble on CCS projects.
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But the edge-to-edge OLED phone is yet another pricey gamble on an increasingly smaller slice of an oversaturated market.
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Jia is now tasked with finding investors willing to take a gamble on a luxury EV startup with a troubled past.
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Everyday moments like going to school or a movie theater or a shopping center are an actual gamble on your life.
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And the Pro Pack rewards you stand to earn — if you win — are the same ones that paying players gamble on.
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But with CBS's gamble on a subscription-only rollout, it's yet to be seen how many people will actually consume it.
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"I took a gamble on a 'bulk joblot,'" which Baxter describes as a sort of "lucky dip" of random bulk items.
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May's snap election call was the second time that a Conservative gamble on the issue of Britain's relations with Europe backfired.
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There's plenty to gamble on in Las Vegas, but when it comes to selecting my hotel, I won't risk the odds.
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Mr. Netanyahu agreed to several concessions to cement the deal rather than gamble on winning better terms from the next president.
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It's a gamble on EA's part, since there won't be any downloadable content to boost the game's sales in the future.
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If, however, the DPRK believes the United States is preparing aggressive military action, it may well gamble on a first strike.
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The gamble on an Anglican approach to faith and morals is even more high-risk — as Anglicanism's own schisms well attest.
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Now General Mills seems to have decided it can't gamble on Congress providing a deus ex machina, and followed Campbell's lead.
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Rick L. Stevens, an associate laboratory director at Argonne, acknowledged that Aurora represented a gamble on a collection of new technologies.
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The plunge in stocks could discourage investments, acquisitions or other types of corporate spending by executives unwilling to gamble on uncertainty.
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It was June 1.83, and the San Antonio Spurs had decided to gamble on potential and promise at the N.B.A. draft.
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Being president is hard; it tends to age politicians rapidly, and Biden shouldn't gamble on his ability to fill the role.
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Your Excellencies I'm Hadley Gamble on CNBC anchor in the Middle East and I'm joined now by the CEO of NASDAQ.
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For now, however, MLB relies on teams taking out individual policies, and the Red Sox took a gamble on the Panda.
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When Marvel Studios began its cinematic universe a decade ago, Iron Man was a bold gamble on a hero and character.
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May's future is unclear after her botched gamble on a snap election left her Conservative Party short of a majority in parliament.
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The obvious risk in doing so: future employers might not want to gamble on this person badmouthing them at a later date.
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Featuring Machado was, in some ways, a gamble on the campaign's part; she's lived what could be described as an eventful life.
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" Billboard's reviewer was also delighted but confused, praising the extravaganza while also calling it "surreal" and "the biggest gamble on the Strip.
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Humanity took a gamble on its future by letting an artificial-intelligence machine take on four of the world's best poker players.
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Smith took a gamble on third-and-2 from an empty backfield, finding Hill open down the right sideline against single coverage.
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But the poor, who rely on the patronage of politicians from their own sect, seem unlikely to gamble on relatively unknown outsiders.
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The mighty German automotive industry took a bad gamble on diesel engines, and is now mired in allegations of faked emissions tests.
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That is where the constant need to gamble on your hunches will separate the millionaires from the billionaires — and also the bankrupt.
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So, while Carnival and Royal Caribbean could present a picture of being historically cheap stocks, Cramer wasn't willing to gamble on them.
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HTC may be struggling to sell smartphones, but it already looks like its gamble on virtual reality may have been worth it.
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But its gamble on the cloud is not a straightforward one, because the market for connected IoT devices is still so nascent.
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So, we shouldn't gamble on the next Interior secretary sharing the American people's love of public lands, wild rivers and grizzly bears.
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Unless you're really spontaneous, and don't really want to see your family, there's no good reason to gamble on last-minute bargains.
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Hydrogen fuel systems are therefore a gamble on the future viability of carbon capture, utilization and storage technology on a large scale.
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That and a $2 billion share repurchase plan meant there was no need for investors to gamble on an offer by Mylan.
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He told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Thursday that the alliance was moving in the right direction and that President Trump recognized that.
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Hydrogen fuel systems are therefore a gamble on the future viability of carbon capture, utilisation and storage technology on a large scale.
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It's their gamble on danger, their trust in risk that may explain why none of them has yet made it to Broadway.
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Outside race seasons, Keeneland holds thoroughbred auctions that draw global billionaires and resource-pooling syndicates eager to gamble on a promising foal.
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But other Republicans, including Tyler, believe the gamble on Moore could be disastrous for the GOP and Trump, even if Moore wins.
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Would traditional studios, with their proclivity for blandly appealing blockbuster fare, even have the guts to gamble on a film like Okja?
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However, pressed by CNBC's Hadley Gamble on whether the administration would extend the waivers, Hook said he could not answer that question yet.
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"The political solution was available from day one, but the Houthis refused to take it," al-Jubeir told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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Even if such projects start as a marketing ploy, they can spark corporate bureaucrats to gamble on initiatives and partnerships they otherwise wouldn't.
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That distinction doesn't really matter; it's enough to know that Steamloto and CSGOLotto both give users the chance to gamble on better skins.
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With its public launch and the rollout of its content creation platform Convos, the Octane team is taking a gamble on the medium.
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I mean, unless it's some weird Sicilian slice with baked ziti on top that you took a gamble on while you were shitfaced.
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It's important to acknowledge that you don't see the position as a step down, but as "a gamble on yourself" for the future.
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If an investor wants a guaranteed profit, it is a much safer bet to cut costs than to gamble on distant future returns.
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They pay their taxes, found real charities, endow universities, support hospitals, fund medical research and gamble on products that can help us all.
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The current price for a single bitcoin is more than $7,000, meaning that you probably don't have the capital to gamble on one.
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Using submarines that have been in commission since the early 1980s "is taking a gamble on the life of our people," she said.
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And the Republican retort, for now, writes itself: Why gamble on socialism when the Trump economy is already supplying the jobs we need?
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Jacobs straddles these worlds as UTA Marketing's cohead, working with brands like General Motors, Lyft, and Procter & Gamble on branded content and distribution.
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After all, he seems ready to gamble on the health of the US economy -- his best political asset heading into his 2020 reelection race.
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Most presidents are forced to gamble on a nominee they do not truly know – someone who has spent a lifetime outside the public eye.
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As a rule, don't buy from tabletops or unauthorized mall kiosks or websites (often called "gray market" sellers because it's a gamble on authenticity).
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He took a gamble on the part, turning down a bigger-budget project for the film, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination.
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So many "what ifs" to gamble on in this game… So it's time to go out and get drunk enough to tolerate my housemates.
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It's not too surprising that Luxembourg—a small but wealthy country with limited terrestrial resources—has decided to take a gamble on space mining.
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They must be making some money in the exchanges they're not pulling out of; how much do they want to gamble on losing that?
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Ken Chenault, the former C.E.O. of American Express, is making a gamble on a training start-up called Guild Education, DealBook can exclusively report.
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Procter & Gamble: An exhausting proxy battle between the consumer goods company and activist investor Nelson Peltz was narrowly won by Procter & Gamble on Tuesday.
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May's government, compounded by her failed gamble on a snap election in June, has made the going far tougher and the uncertainties far greater.
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So does money dedicated to brackets; millions of fans gamble on the tournament, helping to create billions in revenue that never reaches the players.
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He could have signed an $221 million contract extension with the Clippers in the last off-season but decided to gamble on himself instead.
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Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book, and so I came out with what classics I could find.
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The most painful came in 1989, when he backed a new employee's gamble on a steel firm, Edgcomb, despite opposition from more experienced colleagues.
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A 2006 federal law intended to make it more difficult to gamble on the Internet has, by almost any measure, been a spectacular failure.
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SoftBank's gamble on Uber is also hedged by the company's stakes in other ride-hailing services, including China's Didi Chuxing and Southeast Asia's Grab.
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" The theory is that with Trump in the White House, Democratic voters don't want to gamble on trying to make history electing another "first.
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After "Avatar" smashed box office records in 2009, thanks in part to a big gamble on creating a 3D version, TV makers wanted in.
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"I'm not really sure," said McAdoo, who is better known on Twitter as McAdeity, McAdauntless, McAdozy, McAdaring (he likes to gamble on fourth down).
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Both of these books seem likely to leave their young readers inspired to take a gamble on new languages, new cultures and new people.
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This foreshadows Trump's gamble on his continuing ability to sell the dark issues of racial resentment and cultural alienation that dominated the 2016 campaign.
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Perry, who is on a trip to Dubai, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Saturday that he didn't think Trump would eventually face articles of impeachment.
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Industry watchers had anticipated a decision to come later in the year, but Turnbull's gamble on a July 2 general election sped up the process.
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Gamble on tech The problem: It's going to be difficult (although not impossible) to stop warming well short of 2 degrees Celsius without technological advances.
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Mr. Foreman told me on Saturday that he was still willing to "take a gamble" on Mr. Trump — but also that he was reserving judgment.
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But Aaron Kohli, director of fixed income strategy at BMO, told CNBC Friday that Trump may gamble on a dilemma that never comes to pass.
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Thetford's coaches, Igor Rwigema and Ibrahim Appiah, saw only one practice and one game while recruiting Keita, deciding that glimpse was enough to gamble on.
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Was is worth it, attendees asked, to make a risky political gamble on a third-party in an election where the stakes are so high?
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Too often, economically challenged high school students aren't encouraged by counselors and teachers to aim high, take risks, and gamble on applying to selective schools.
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It was a gamble on drawing Iran, a hopeful and highly educated society, closer to the world and so weakening the Islamic Republic's hard-liners.
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Poverty is hammering away at livelihoods in much of Central America, and for some, the decision to leave is a gamble on a better life.
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Or it might reason that the United States poses a threat that is both existential and unyielding, compelling Tehran to gamble on taking extreme measures.
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But it shows that the post-Madoff Mets really are serious, willing to make a sensible gamble on a slugger they now know and trust.
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Eli has an older son, Phineas (David Wilson Barnes), who works the banking crowd, trying to find investors willing to take a gamble on oil.
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An exchange between Scott Disick and Corey Gamble on Keeping Up With the Kardashians got heated when Gamble made a comment about Disick's daughter, Penelope.
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This election is too vital for us to lose ... because voters refuse to take a gamble on national security and the steadiness of our leadership.
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"When you were at Rugby you were a great runner, and anyone who has that level of fitness I'm going to gamble on," he declared.
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Paramount took a gamble on reviving a series that's been gone for more than a decade, but the finished product doesn't seem to be resonating.
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"Students who have been wronged by their colleges would have to suffer damaging consequences in order to even gamble on this unsympathetic bureaucracy," Kvaal said.
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The Knicks took a gamble on the 7-foot-1 Robinson when they selected him in the second round of June's draft, 36th over all.
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Oklahoma City Thunder: Romeo Langford, SG, Indiana A gamble on upside and potential after Langford grinded through injuries during his only season at Indiana. 76.
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Philippe Marlière, a professor of French and European politics at the University College of London, calls the Macron movement a "gamble" on "dynamism" and youth.
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This ambiguity may constitute a significant barrier to families raising money for private ransom payments, as potential donors may be unwilling to gamble on prosecutorial discretion.
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"Jupiter retrograde will make us extra credulous and wanting to gamble on love — adding optimism to matters that will not serve our highest purpose," Stardust says.
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That trend indicates that VCs may be less willing to take a gamble on less-established companies and ideas than they have been in previous years.
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Part of the gamble on this kind of project — films that use heavy CGI to create fantastic beasts — is that they're so heavily reliant on performances.
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With its new Spectacles, Snap is making another big gamble on the camera-centric device — and hoping it can win over more of its everyday users.
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The mandate makes it expensive to gamble on going uninsured — and nudges those who don't plan to use much medical care to purchase a policy anyway.
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Patrick: I feel like the draft we'll tweak for the future should be like actual first things from a studio that you're taking a gamble on.
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Oculus made a gamble on the high-end three years ago, but the $399 standalone Quest is where they see whether that bet was worth it.
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Puerto Rico's government made a huge political gamble on mounting a credible campaign for statehood, a proposition that only its most optimistic supporters view as realistic.
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RE-ELECTION BID If the IMF lifeline continues to calm markets and does not dramatically change Macri's agenda, his gamble on seeking assistance could bear dividends.
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Donaldson is left to gamble on himself, hoping his long layoff won't compromise his ability to help Cleveland reach its second World Series in three years.
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May's loss of her majority in the British parliament with a botched gamble on a snap election has prompted an apparent softening of rhetoric on Brexit.
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It makes much more sense for Iran to acquire nuclear weapons rather than gamble on the possibility that America's Iran policy will radically shift once again.
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In 22, Japan changed its laws to allow Japanese fans to gamble on 254 internationally significant races, a move that increased wagering there to $22.5 billion.
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Extremely low interest rates and massive central bank balance sheets left investors hoping to generate decent returns with little choice but to gamble on risky stocks.
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There's simply no need to gamble on the population numbers game to compensate for policies that make it increasingly difficult for people and wildlife to thrive.
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From a strategic perspective, it is an outright gamble, on both the diplomatic and military fronts for Washington to support operations in both Mosul and Raqqa simultaneously.
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May, a minority government leader battling to deliver Brexit and weakened by a failed gamble on a snap election last summer, faces risks whatever path she takes.
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While Leunen had interest in a training camp invite, he didn't want to gamble on the musical chairs-like stress that comes with an unguaranteed spot there.
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"We were about 90% of the way there (with a deal) and I think there's a path to complete this," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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While paying a little extra for a storefront in an established neighborhood can be justified, other times an ambitious business owner might gamble on a neighborhood's potential.
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But if you're pretty sure you'd rather gamble on missing a big Hawkeye moment (for example) than skipping even one second of Black Widow screen time ... godspeed.
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They are more likely to hedge production to protect those returns than to gamble on the "home run" of the oil price doubling to $100 a barrel.
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"Any time you do it, it's a gamble but anytime you do, we want to gamble on the students being safe," Parrot told CNN affiliate WATE-TV.
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Sitting 2.5 games back of a playoff spot at the deadline, Washington had to make a move—and the gamble on Morris is probably a worthy one.
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Chelsea boss Frank Lampard took a gamble on letting Tammy Abraham lead the line for his new-look side this season — but boy has it paid off.
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Ever since her gamble on a snap election in 2017 squandered her party's majority in parliament, May has relied on the 10 DUP lawmakers to pass legislation.
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That changed after venture firms such as Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund decided to gamble on Airbnb's potential to shake up the vacation rentals business.
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And another startup could always take the gamble on raising a ton of cash and subsidizing prices to steal market share, especially where Thistle doesn't operate yet.
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The question for voters, and political parties necessary to build a governing coalition, is whether to gamble on Gantz's political inexperience over Netanyahu, the established elder statesman.
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With today's investment-conscious art buyers less willing to gamble on emerging names than they were four or five years ago, there was noticeably less traffic upstairs.
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Each year authorities take a gamble on which emerging virus will be the most deadly and create a vaccine in the hopes of staving off an epidemic.
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The truce agreement that the U.S. reached with the Taliban was a plan for "a reduction in violence" in Afghanistan, Esper told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Saturday.
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Not willing to gamble on his inheritance, the squabble over Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho's legacy split his large family - four wives and seventeen children - into two factions.
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The challenge, however, is getting people to take a gamble on a comic who is relatively unknown in the United States, he said recently over breakfast in SoHo.
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"Our private equity is growing there, and we are looking to see how to write bigger checks and buy bigger companies," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Friday.
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Michele Bachmann, the outsider Minnesota congresswoman who told CNN she took a "gamble" on Miller, who had no experience before he was hired to be her press secretary.
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Art dealers took a gamble on the damaged and partially covered work, paying $10,000 in 2005 before restoring and verifying it for an $80 million resale in 2013.
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It will pay a high price for its ill-advised gamble on diesel engines and it faces further disruption from the dash towards electrification and self-driving vehicles.
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But despite that exterior sameness, Apple makes a gutsy gamble on improving, and completely removing, core features that have been part of the iPhone for nearly a decade.
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But Jamie Campbell Petty, co-founder of the Midwest Hemp Council, said at least 25 Indiana farmers will gamble on hemp in 2019, growing on about 1,1003 acres.
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"Higher oil prices will only help reduce the deficit and build reserves, we will continue our reform," Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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Consequently, a sudden, panic-driven influx of sell orders or a pullback by buyers suddenly unwilling to gamble on a steadily rising bitcoin price will sink that price.
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Ntilikina was the second-youngest player in the draft, and Jackson said there was considerable debate among Knicks executives before a consensus was reached to gamble on him.
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In 1989, he took a gamble on the food of his homeland, Jamaica, in the hopes that many Americans would embrace it, opening a bakery in the Bronx.
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The Bank of Canada (BOC) may have taken a big gamble on its economy when adopting a new hawkish tone on Wednesday, according to one economic research company.
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"It's obvious that I'm going to get completely dusted," Eaton told Reuters while promoting the "Thank You, Mom," TV ad campaign by Olympic sponsor Proctor & Gamble on Tuesday.
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But his gamble on running on a post-partisan platform might backfire in a very tight race — as much as 7503 percent of the electorate is still undecided.
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Since her gamble on a snap election failed a week ago, May has come under pressure from some in her own party to change her approach to Brexit talks.
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Subscription-based digital platforms, eager to reach into global markets and unburdened by skittish advertisers, are more willing to gamble on series that traditional networks might consider too risky.
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In terms of geopolitical headwinds for 2019, "One is the potential of heated war between China and the United States," Suhail Al Mazrouei told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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Procter & Gamble on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analyst expectations, as strong consumers continue to pay up for its products following price increases earlier this year.
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And if distributors aren't willing to gamble on them at even the festival level, what chance is there for women filmmakers to make gains in the broader film industry?
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The company isn't leaving video altogether; Spotify plans to reboot the initiative, marking just the latest shake-up in a meandering, and at times uncertain, gamble on original content.
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I enjoyed talking to him, and he was game, fielding everything from questions like, "Do you feel like you're peddling fiction?" to my request to gamble on the spot.
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Consider the basic dynamic of the referendum in 2014: the nationalists had emotion and the thrill of the gamble on their side, while the unionists had reason and numbers.
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Whether this is a deal-breaker to you will depend on your usage patterns, or whether you're willing to gamble on either of Oppo and Vivo's more creative solutions.
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Mr Galansino says one factor that encouraged him to gamble on contemporary art was that he could count on the foreigners who visit the city as tourists or students.
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Look ahead: If a major tech conglomerate wanted to take a bigger gamble on health care, there are a lot of ways to get in the industry right now.
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And with the president on the wall 100 percent, but if you&aposre going to take a risky gamble on shutting down the government, the time to do that?
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The bike's Kickstarter entry-level price is $1,700, making this a fairly pricey gamble on a bike that has yet to be proven by independent users on the streets.
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So what could President Trump possibly do to open up a lane for Democrats and reach Americans in struggling counties across the nation who took a gamble on him?
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History suggests that OPEC will gamble on tightening the market too much, with prices overshooting on the upside, rather than risk not tightening it enough and prices fall back.
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So she quit her high-paying finance job, moved back in with her parents, and took a gamble on the city's first rum-only distillery in nearly a century.
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The carrier's bet on JFK was a gamble on whether travelers would trek out to an airport more known for international service than for short- and medium-haul flights.
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Bernie's gamble on turnout Sanders waged his campaign in Iowa with a clear proposition: that higher turnout among working class, young and Latino voters would all but guarantee victory.
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They hustle to get it — they steal from the kitchen and sell the food, they gamble on sports or cards, they iron shirts or wash dishes, whatever it takes.
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That, in turn, will require either more government investment in communities with high unemployment or more willingness on the part of private companies to take a gamble on repeat offenders.
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NBC News reported in July that Trump's stance prompted U.S. diplomats and commanders to gamble on a bid to kick-start peace negotiations, including holding direct talks with the Taliban.
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Given the Democratic Party's demographic advantages in presidential elections and the chaos in the GOP primary, it's worth taking a gamble on Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders) in this race.
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Microsoft Corp dominates the $103-billion market for business productivity tools for a reason: Its longstanding product is reliable and IT managers have little incentive to gamble on something new.
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"Eskom simply does not have the liquidity, cashflow and strong balance sheet to support this hideous gamble on the fiscus and state electricity supplier," Transform RSA president Adil Nchabeleng said.
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An investor can sell shares at any time, unlike those in a private equity fund, who face a lockup period or a gamble on the timing of a future IPO.
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Beijing has long taken advantage of other countries and U.S. President Donald Trump is right to seek changes out of Asia's largest economy, he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday.
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Before the London Bridge attack, May's gamble on a June 8 snap election had been thrust into doubt after polls showed her Conservative Party's lead had collapsed in recent weeks.
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With Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson mostly out of the picture, Hill is now The Assault Guy, the player a NFL team was willing to gamble on despite his past.
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Couple that with the Palestinian Authority's self-serving kleptocracy, and only a fool would gamble on the Palestinians' ability to keep a state out of the hands of radical Islamists.
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That would pay for the new Vikings stadium in less than four years, and it would be right on the backs of the very people who gamble on the games.
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In addition, farmers who gamble on back-to-back canola sowings - rather than letting fields recover - may still initially reap good harvests until clubroot spreads enough to substantially lower yields.
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But the cheaper property values in those places attracted a significant share of low-income buyers who are more likely to gamble on foregoing coverage in order to pay less.
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"We have never seen a bargaining committee that openly wants to gamble on the future of all Canadian operations and call a bluff," the bargaining committee wrote in the post.
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The Sixers, who got off to a middling 8-5 start, decided to swing big and gamble on Butler, 29, even though he can become a free agent July 1.
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"I'm not worried at all because Saudi Arabia is very safe," Ahmad Al-Khatib, chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday.
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In 1983, as Trump was making his mark on the Atlantic City boardwalk he also took a gamble on the upstart United States Football League, purchasing the New Jersey Generals.
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These winnings do not come without risk to the private equity firms, which are often taking a gamble on troubled companies, and when they fail, the firms probably lose out.
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Before the London Bridge attack, May's gamble on a June 21443 snap election had been thrust into doubt after polls showed her Conservative Party's lead had collapsed in recent weeks.
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When Dick's Sporting Goods announced earlier this week that its gamble on the women's athleisure market is coming to an end, it sounded somewhat of an alarm across the industry.
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Considering the numbers involved in the kit industry, it's perhaps understandable that manufacturers are unwilling to gamble on designs which are successful in the long term but contentious at launch.
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The EDZ is the first and largest new environment players will experience in Destiny 260, the sequel to the Halo maker's bold gamble on the future of the first-person shooter.
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Poll respondents also appear to be optimistic Abe's gamble on a snap election will end up with him keeping his conservative Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition majority in parliament's lower house.
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A dollar sign followed by five or six digits can't tell you what path a talented designer took to reach his position, or what skills young designers should gamble on next.
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"Nominees are supposed to shed investments before they take office, not gamble on stocks until the last moment," said Richard Painter, who served as ethics adviser to President George W. Bush.
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The Brooklyn Mirage's closing party on September 26, 2015—featuring Adriatique, Frank & Tony, and Alexi Delano, among others—was the royal flush in Cityfox's high-stakes gamble on New York nightlife.
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Procter & Gamble on Tuesday again posted strong quarterly earnings, beating analysts' expectations on the top and bottom lines and allowing it to raise its sales and earnings outlook for the year.
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Investors should buy Procter & Gamble on the prospect of better sales growth ahead, according to B. Riley & Co., which raised its rating on the consumer products company to buy from neutral.
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Under Martin, Parlophone began to see returns on his gamble on British comedy recordings: he had surprise hits with Flanders and Swann, The Goons, Beyond the Fringe, Bernard Cribbins and others.
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NASA has, after all, already taken huge gamble on SpaceX with the Commercial Crew Program, which is now at least a year behind schedule sending American astronauts to the Space Station.
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To others, she is the villain whose ill-thought-out gamble on immigration is "ruining Germany", as Mr Trump once put it, and whose austerity policies laid waste to southern Europe.
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The editors of tabloids know this better than anyone, and are certainly aware that every time they write a headline they are taking a gamble on the likelihood of its veracity.
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His Republican National Convention in Cleveland was a four-day gamble on turnout, with angry, dystopian speeches aimed at mostly white voters who believe their country has been stolen from them.
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He cut subsidies on fuel and food basics and dreamed up an initial public offering for the world's largest company -- the oil behemoth Aramco -- to fund his gamble on Saudi rebirth.
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Britain is not due to hold an election until 2022 but Johnson could gamble on an earlier poll in a bid to increase his working majority of just one in parliament.
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So from a public health perspective, the safest strategy right now is to try and end this epidemic, not gamble on an immunity strategy where great numbers of people get infected.
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The gamble on gas rests in large part on the sector's ability to squeeze coal out of the global energy system and compete with the rise of wind and solar power.
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Most of the games feature one or two schools that might only draw your interest if you gamble on college basketball, or if you take your March Madness research incredibly seriously.
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Minnesota can gamble on Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins making a collective leap in 2019, retain Butler's Bird Rights, then offer nearly $50 million more than any other team can guarantee.
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The government has already set the clock ticking in a two-year exit process hampered by her gamble on a snap election last June which cost her party its majority in parliament.
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In making the deal, the Warriors are taking a big gamble on Wiggins, a naturally skilled, 24-year-old No. 1 pick, who has disappointed in Minnesota, but has plenty of potential.
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Las Vegas would have everything I needed to see who has what it takes to keep me falling… There's no better place than Vegas to take a chance and gamble on love.
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"Perhaps the path to youths is not a steep gamble on a social media-obsessed 35-year-old who once said of the venture, "We really didn't know what we were doing.
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But it is absolutely kicking ass, especially in the international marketplace, which was previously always just a code word for Hollywood to not gamble on something they considered not a sure thing.
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It was a far higher vote for Britain's exit than pollsters had predicted, and it was the first sign that Prime Minister David Cameron's gamble on staying in the bloc had lost.
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The company had been working on a sports betting product that would let people gamble on the outcome of games or point totals — options it wasn't allowed to offer before Monday's ruling.
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His big gamble on a sudden and rapid Syria pullout, which broke on Wednesday, is classic Trump in execution and content after he effectively declared mission accomplished and the defeat of ISIS.
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"The ball is in the Iranian regime's court, as it were," Frank Fannon, U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources at the State Department told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on stage.
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On first glance, Michigan's strong economic recovery during the Obama administration appears to translate into an advantage for Clinton — one that may make Sanders's gamble on the state not make much sense.
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It's why he leaned on celebrities to hedge his gamble on the first Wrestlemania when Hulk Hogan, one of the biggest stars in the world, was fully capable of managing the burden.
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For Apple, a fancy camera and a big gamble on high-quality wireless audio are an attempt at recapturing some of the magic of the most profitable consumer product of all time.
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That would have been a pretty big gamble on Iran's part -- they would have had to bank on early-detection systems kicking into gear and all personnel getting out of the way.
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Perhaps sensing as much, the Washington Wizards made a complicated gamble on Markieff Morris, while preserving just enough space to make a long-planned and increasingly futile max offer to Kevin Durant.
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Ultimately, he opted to gamble on Cashner's ability at a position of need rather than keeping Rizzo and risking his value depreciating, either from sitting on the bench or languishing in Petco.
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If you're looking to take a gamble on a former senator who ran for the vice presidency, you might as well buy Tim Kaine at 2 cents, a relative bargain compared to Biden.
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A former economy minister and ex-banker, he has no direct experience of security matters, but will be hoping that edgy voters are ready to take a gamble on him all the same.
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Fans can place bets with offshore bookmakers and gamble on their favourite players in fantasy sports leagues, which received a legal exemption in 2006 and handle about $3bn in entry fees a year.
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The North's KCNA state news agency, citing a foreign ministry spokesman, said on Saturday the Trump administration was "begging for nuclear war by staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean peninsula".
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"The core airline has always been operating in a very, very solid way even in the most challenging times," Peter Baumgartner, chief executive officer of Etihad Airways told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday.
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North Korea's Foreign Ministry said US President Donald Trump was "begging for a nuclear war" through what it called an "extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean Peninsula," in a statement released Saturday.
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Few members of the recent "Pink Tide" of leftist leaders in Latin America have attempted to tackle the pervasive issue of tax reform, preferring to gamble on the short-termism of commodity booms.
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Investors have built up a large short position in CVR in the past three months, according to Reuters data, as evidence mounts that the company's gamble on the biofuels market is going sour.
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You get people who are passionate about what they wanna talk about, or what they wanna get out there, whether it's how to gamble on jai alai, which is a really esoteric reference.
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After a tumultuous week that pitched Britain into its deepest political crisis since the Brexit referendum a year ago, May's future was already uncertain due to her failed gamble on a snap election.
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The WSJ reported former CEO Jeff Immelt's disdain for bad news led to over-optimistic forecasts and botched strategies, while Reuters details how GE's gamble on fossil fuel power was a losing bet.
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While many professionals will purchase these securities to hedge their exposure to the stock market, analysts say that day traders are now using them to gamble on a sharp spike in the VIX.
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Procter & Gamble on Thursday also confirmed that all eight of its manufacturing plants and six out of eight distribution centers in China have restarted operations, as first reported by the Cincinnati Business Courier.
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The stakes have been high since 2013, when Rogers made a big gamble on the N.H.L. with a 12-year, $5.2 billion package that was the biggest media rights agreement in league history.
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Procter & Gamble on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that fell short of estimates for the first time in five quarters, hurt by a stronger dollar and a struggling baby segment, which includes Pampers diapers.
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"But we have determined that untrained, pit bull-type dogs posing as both service and support animals are a potential safety risk - and we can't take that gamble on employees or customers," Delta wrote.
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If a landlord is willing to gamble on a local restaurateur — and if that buzz does indeed translate into success — an independent restaurant can ultimately be even more financially rewarding than a national chain.
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If we had to gamble on it, we'd bet the IPO market will be far more brisk this year than last year, which was the worst year for tech IPOs in particular since 25.
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The North's KCNA state news agency, citing a foreign ministry spokesman, also said on Saturday the Trump administration was "begging for nuclear war by staging an extremely dangerous nuclear gamble on the Korean peninsula".
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"In Vision 2030 and in the Crown Prince's dynamic vision, tourism is next, because it's a tremendous generator of jobs," Jerry Inzerillo, CEO of Diriyah Gate Development Authority, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday.
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The court remains focused on the July 1 deadline, noting that "political necessities" were not relevant to its work and neither is the success or failure of the Republicans' gamble on trickle-down policies.
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The priest gradually gained his confidence by teaching him how to gamble on horses, plied him with beers in the rectory, showed him pornographic magazines, took pictures of him naked and eventually raped him.
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The WSJ story said former CEO Jeff Immelt's disdain for bad news led to over optimistic forecasts and botched strategies, while Reuters details how GE's gamble on fossil fuel power was a losing bet.
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But the outrageously selfish scheme that they embark on — involving another woman's pregnancy, an ethics-challenged doctor of "female mysteries" (Tom Hollander) and a big gamble on tulips — further distances them from the audience.
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It was the late 1990s, the Asian financial crisis was in full swing, and China was feeling the pinch: Quitting her job meant leaving secure employment and taking a gamble on the economic recovery.
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Bouillabaisse was never meant to be served in restaurants on demand; the dish is too expensive and difficult to make for a restaurant to gamble on the chance that a customer might want it.
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Bouillabaisse was never meant to be served in restaurants on demand; the dish is too expensive and difficult to make for a restaurant to gamble on the chance that a customer might want it.
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Voters appeared to be willing to gamble on a relative newcomer to confront the country's poverty and violence, shutting out the right- and left-wing parties that have dominated Salvadoran politics for three decades.
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Or maybe you'd rather gamble on the fact that the chances of your pet getting seriously hurt or sick are relatively slim, and wind up deciding that going sans insurance is worth the perceived risk.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble on a snap election was under question on Thursday after the latest opinion polls showed her Conservative Party's lead was dwindling just a week before voting begins.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like it have proven to be more volatile because the same hype that helps to build value also brings in customers that simply want to gamble on the hot, new thing.
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Taking a gamble on a very good player in his early twenties makes it more likely that a team will enjoy his best years, in his late twenties, especially if he becomes an extraordinary footballer.
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These young people are rightfully terrified, and as I tweeted this weekend, legislators have essentially told them that they'll need to take a gamble on their lives every day they decide to get an education.
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The rule forced many Wall Street banks, which before the crisis could gamble on their own account across various assets, to overhaul their trading operations and hive off billions of dollars' worth of investment vehicles.
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The once-in-a-generation decision to gamble on the convention center shows the importance of political leadership, something Federal Reserve officials and economists have begun to see as central to a local jurisdiction's success.
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Polls indicated Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble on securing a bigger Conservative majority would be rewarded with a win, though the surprise 2016 vote to quit the European Union meant investors were considering all scenarios.
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MONACO (Reuters) - Monaco's famed casino holds no attractions for Max Verstappen but the 20-year-old Dutchman is much more willing to take a high-speed gamble on the unforgiving streets of the Mediterranean principality.
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In all these cases, and many more, the lack of adequate federal civil and any criminal sanctions apparently induced manufacturers to gamble on not reporting the accidents, even while people were being injured and killed.
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"I think we can cope with it," von der Leyen said in response to the berating from the U.S. president, speaking to CNBC's Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.
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The Giants might be better off solidifying this position in free agency or the draft, but they could gamble on Flowers and trust their program enough to let him develop in the role in 2016?
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What began as a low stakes gamble on Sumatran "green" (or raw) beans slowly led Sims to morph Bodhi Leaf from a modest coffee importer to a specialty bean wholesaler with two popular California cafes.
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In Volkswagen's case, the settlement may reflect eagerness on the part of Obama administration officials to strike a deal while they are still in office, and the company's reluctance to gamble on the new leadership.
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The rapturous reception at the premiere ("a world event," Mr. Peskov, the press secretary to Mr. Putin, told Tass news agency afterward) suggests that Mr. Urin's gamble on a still-controversial subject has paid off.
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But more importantly, if Marvel had never signed away the rights to Spider-Man and the X-Men, it never would have been forced to gamble on a superhero viewers didn't know they wanted yet.
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Speaking to CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday, Careem's CEO and co-founder Mudassir Sheikha, said he is not concerned about investment from Saudi Arabia, which has been the target of sharp criticism over the last month.
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"There are many things that concern me but I would say that those geopolitical conflicts can, if not handled the right way, can have a negative impact on growth," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Sunday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Saturday that such criticism — including from members of the previous administration — fails to recognize what Trump's team has done, or the missteps of past presidents.
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The most successful women in business have been, out of necessity, entrepreneurs and innovators: Ruth Handler took a gamble on her hunch that children might enjoy playing with dolls that look adult, and Barbie was born.
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Rich people sometimes gamble on hiding away their funds, however, often because they're behaving irrationally and vindictively as their marriage falls apart, according to attorney John Slowiaczek, president-elect of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble on a June 8 snap election was thrust into doubt after a Survation poll showed her Conservative Party's lead had dropped to a new low of just one percentage point.
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LONDON — As September clings desperately to the last vestiges of summer, Uber has taken a gamble on the British weather to open a pop-up pool to punt — you guessed it — its uberPool car-sharing service.
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WeWork, the office leasing giant, has acquired the New York-based Flatiron School, a private coding academy, in a gamble on 15-week, $15,000 vocational education as opposed to far more expensive four-year college degrees.
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May's authority on Brexit, already weakened after a failed gamble on a snap election last year, has been further damaged by ideological splits between ministers, exacerbating concerns that Brexit talks may fail and the government collapse.
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The show featured Hall getting audience members to gamble on whether they should keep small prizes they had traded their own stuff for -- or risk trading them for what was in a box or behind curtains.
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Some of these writers feel that the American republic has already gone under, we're just choosing between elected emperors, and you might as well gamble on a Caesar who's willing to flay the empire's ruling class.
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Giles is by far the biggest risk of the three, but the Kings probably figured they could gamble on his high potential since they have already added two rookies that should make an impact almost immediately.
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The league certainly recognizes that the growth of DirecTV's N.F.L. Sunday Ticket, which lets fans watch every game, and Verizon's N.F.L. RedZone, which shows every scoring play, has been driven by people who gamble on football.
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Prime Minister Theresa May, badly damaged by her gamble on an early election, said on Friday, "What the country needs more than ever is certainty," even as her own cabinet members began circling, smelling wounded prey.
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Now, the age-old luxury watch industry is getting a breath of new life with an up-and-coming online company called Troverie— and it's ensuring that customers never have to take a gamble on watch purchases.
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The tight vote is a major blow for Turnbull whose gamble on a risky double dissolution of parliament in a bid to oust intransigent independents in the upper house Senate blocking his agenda appears to have backfired.
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Fox's "gamble" on a full-blown R-rated spandex-set movie was expected to make $150 million over the four-day frame (Friday through the Presidents Day holiday), just about doubling what were already pretty high expectations.
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Typically, late-stage investors would be the ones taking a "gamble" on outside opportunities like those in Israel or Europe, but competition is forcing seed investors to look for early-stage opportunities outside of their immediate geography.
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As Britain risked political deadlock after May's gamble on a snap election left her short of a majority in Britain's parliament, election losses by the Scottish National Party (SNP) undermined Sturgeon's bid for a second independence vote.
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After PM May's botched gamble on a June 8 snap election deprived her Conservative Party of a majority, she is trying to strike a deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.
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Ozuna was their major winter move, but the Cardinals also took a two-year, $15.5 million gamble on Miles Mikolas, who struggled as a starter for Texas in 2014 (earned run average: 6.44) before starring in Japan.
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If Tesla succeeds in producing long-range, reliable battery packs at a low price, the Model 3 could be a massive success If you couldn't already tell from that sentence alone, that's a big gamble on Tesla's part.
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According to historical lottery data and analysis of purchasing behavior in past drawings, the best time to gamble on the lottery might have actually been when the Powerball jackpot was about $600 million smaller than it is currently.
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"Of course the president has been effective in creating security and stability and economic progress, implementation of economic reform," Sameh Shoukry told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday during the EU-Arab League Summit in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt.
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According to historical lottery data and analysis of purchasing behavior in past drawings, the best time to gamble on the lottery might have been with a Powerball jackpot that was about $600 million smaller than it is now.
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It's forbidden for league players to gamble on games, but despite Esquinas telling Lacey that he seemed to hear Jordan placing a bet on a college game, there were never serious allegations that Jordan bet on the NBA.
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What used to be the norm for the highest tier of game production today feels like an oddity and a huge gamble on Microsoft's part, which has exclusive rights to and will publish Quantum Break on April 5.
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Ms. Croft, who received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to do the translation, eventually convinced the rising British independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions to gamble on "Flights," which was released in Britain in 2017 to glowing reviews.
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Its gamble on making one-day shipping the default for Amazon Prime members looks to have paid off, as it posted revenue of $87 billion for the fourth quarter of 2019 – up from $72.4 billion the prior year.
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With their growing success, American drillers were able to find ready debt financing as investors were willing to gamble on the idea that wells could start producing in a fraction of the time it took more conventional drillers.
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After May lost her majority in parliament with a botched gamble on a snap June 8 election, she is trying to secure the backing of the DUP's 10 lawmakers, though talks have dragged on for nearly two weeks.
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JAKARTA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Joko Widodo took what appeared to be his biggest political gamble on Wednesday by including former general Prabowo Subianto in the cabinet, his main rival who has long harboured ambitions for the presidency.
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The crux of the problem appears to be Magic Leap's gamble on a so-called fiber scanning display, which shines a laser through a fiber optic cable that moves rapidly back and forth to draw images out of light.
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Advancing gender parity in politics in any country, even those seemingly progressive ones, is always going to be a rough road, and the first ones who make a gamble on equal representation can't avoid becoming victims in the process.
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Industry watchers had anticipated a decision for one of the world's most lucrative defence contracts to come later in the year, but Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's recent gamble on a July 2 election has sped up the process.
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UTA Marketing has worked with brands like General Motors, Lyft, and Procter & Gamble on branded content and distribution, and Endeavor Global Marketing's roster includes Audi, Papa John's, Visa, and Under Armour, according to Endeavor's recent initial-public-offering filing.
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Since Prime Minister Theresa May's botched gamble on a June snap election lost her party its majority in parliament, some investors and many of Corbyn's political opponents now see him as a potential prime minister if May's government falls.
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But America's "national pastime," which started evolving almost as soon as play began in North America, retained at least one strand of British sporting DNA: Yanks loved to gamble on it — and not just on the outcome of games.
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But even accounting for the limitations of Washington, Hoblitzell and the mixed results of Heyward, it remains a relatively solid decision to gamble on players who are stars at age 303 — especially considering the potential savings for the Braves.
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But the President for the first time this week hinted that he understands that his big gamble on China may be hurting Americans as well as weakening Beijing's economy, when he delayed a planned new $150 billion tariff hike.
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Now, Smith figures the product he took a gamble on could dwarf everything else his company does by a factor of 10 in just a year or two — provided, of course, that he can stay ahead of the competition.
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Anthony Belcher Jr. — also known as DoBoy from Nick Cannon&aposs long-running comedy show, "Wild &aposN Out" — took a gamble on his podcast "Righteous and Ratchet," which he cohosts with fellow stand-up comedian and entrepreneur Kevin Fredericks.
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The rule forced many Wall Street banks, which before the crisis could gamble on their own account across various assets, to restructure their businesses, including overhauling their trading operations and hiving off billions of dollars' worth of investment vehicles.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May's botched gamble on a snap election has shaken public confidence in the government with nearly two thirds of voters now negative about her government's approach to Brexit talks, an ORB opinion poll indicated.
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Yet while Ryan's words could resonate with Democratic voters, convincing his fellow lawmakers to throw out Pelosi in next week's election and gamble on an untested messenger when facing a Trump presidency and GOP-controlled Congress could be a tougher sell.
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So the choice to incorporate Drago, his son Viktor, and a vision of post-Soviet Russia that mostly seems drawn from watching '80s movies feels like a dangerous gamble on the part of Creed II screenwriters Stallone and Juel Taylor.
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His was one of the first boats to gamble on the big catches on offer in and around the disputed Scarborough Shoal since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made surprise overtures towards China, which sees the area as its sovereign territory.
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We made a decision that these things were behind us and we made a calculated gamble on the question of whether or not citizens would be more interested in their family's future than in my personal failings that are behind me.
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After her botched gamble on a June 8 snap election deprived her Conservative Party of a majority in the 650-seat Westminster parliament, May is trying to get the support of the DUP's 10 lawmakers to avoid a second election.
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The recently discovered link between the two entities brings up a question around business and competitive ethics: Should the owner of a team be able to profit off a site where people can gamble on that team's failure or success?
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But U.S. sources say the A380 aid meant Airbus was able to gamble on building the world's largest jetliner without facing the financial consequences of market failure, bolstering its balance sheet in a way that disadvantages Boeing to this day.
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In the first group, people can choose a treatment that will save 200 lives with certainty or gamble on a treatment that has a one-third chance of saving 600 people and a two-thirds chance of saving no one.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's new chief of staff is a tycoon and former Olympic equestrian show-jumper whose gamble on Mexico's leftist president-elect paid off politically, but who must now tread carefully to avoid conflicts of interest.
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Never has this been clearer than in David Cameron's colossal gamble on Brexit in the summer of 2016, when a referendum dominated by bad-faith messaging, data breaches, and campaign-finance violations triggered the UK's limping exit from the European Union.
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There are straightforward transactions where players buy something outright, such as ad-free play, and then there are also "loot boxes," which is essentially when players gamble on something without knowing what they will get or the odds of getting it.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China plans to gamble on the bulk deployment of its untested "Hualong One" nuclear reactor, squeezing out foreign designs, as it resumes a long-delayed nuclear program aimed at meeting its clean energy goals, government and industry officials said.
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After a tumultuous week that pitched Britain into its deepest political crisis since the Brexit referendum a year ago, May's future was uncertain, darkened by her botched gamble on a snap election and muted response to a deadly fire in London.
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Russia's $51 billion gamble on staging the 2014 Winter Olympics backfired spectacularly on the international stage, not only unmasking the doping program, but also a scandal over the amount of money spent and allegations of corruption linked to the project.
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Before a botched gamble on a snap election cost her party its majority in parliament, May had set out a raft of proposals for corporate Britain, including curbing soaring levels of executive pay and giving workers a greater say on strategy.
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"As a society, we're going to be making different choices than we did 20 years when it comes to protein in our diets, and in some ways, this move to slow-growth chicken is a gamble on that," she said.
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"I took a gamble on LA, and within the first month I ended up shooting video for this app release party, and I met Jason Nash," Vulpis told Business Insider, referring to the popular YouTube creator with 2.5 million subscribers.
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Buses ferry crowds of Chinese tourists to the giant casinos, where many gamble on slot machines with touch screens, shop in stores set in a replica of Venice and take selfies in front of a copy of the Eiffel Tower.
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A proposed deal between William Hill in Britain and the owner of the PokerStars website was called off, in part because the British firm's biggest shareholders were nervous about taking a gamble on a business that is expanding in America's heavily regulated market.
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Among other things, they found that people are typically both risk-averse and loss-averse: more likely to choose a guaranteed payout of $1,000 than to gamble on winning $1,400 when there's a 20 percent chance they could end up with nothing.
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The agreement was endorsed by both Conservative Brexiteers and Remainers - both of which can count on enough supporters to undermine, and possibly even topple, May after her gamble on a June snap election backfired and stripped the party of a parliamentary majority.
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If I'd been willing to wait and gamble on a fare sale, I might have been able to trim total flight expense by $40, but for Friday and Sunday travel dates sale fare availability can be iffy, so I'm glad I didn't wait.
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It's a big gamble on the mainstream potential of e-sports, and it starts very soon: the Overwatch League pre-season starts tomorrow, while the first proper match will be on January 10th at Blizzard's new e-sports arena in Los Angeles.
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"Abu Dhabi wanted to play in the world stage… and it was not us pushing them, if anything they were already there in terms of what type of transparency is necessary to attract foreign investors," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Sunday.
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May's botched gamble on a June 8 snap election lost her Conservative Party its majority in parliament, leading her to strike a deal on Monday with a small Northern Irish party to ensure she has enough votes to pass legislation in parliament.
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WHEN: Today, Thursday, February 28, 2019 WHERE: CNBC's "Squawk on the Street " The following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC EXCLUSIVE interview with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and CNBC's Hadley Gamble on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" today, Thursday, February 28th.
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After losing her parliamentary majority in a botched gamble on a snap election, May is so weakened that her Brexit strategy has become the subject of public debate inside her own party, with calls for her to take a more business-friendly approach.
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"The good news of this recovery this year is that the outlook is positive for both oil-importing countries and oil-exporting countries," Jihad Azour, director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday.
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After days of political turmoil sparked by her botched gamble on a snap election, May's Conservative Party is in talks with a small Northern Irish Protestant party on securing the support of its 10 members in the 650-seat parliament to pass legislation.
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But we don't have to worry about that just yet: The US hasn't withdrawn from NATO, and Russia is still relatively unlikely to gamble on a lack of American resolve given that it would likely lose any conventional war with NATO powers.
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CreditCreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Long before it became an archaic, filthy, profligate symbol of everything wrong with our broken cities, New York's subway was a marvel — a mad feat of engineering and an audacious gamble on a preposterously ambitious vision.
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Mr. Bradham lost control of the company in the 1920s, after making a wrong gamble on the price of sugar during World War I. The company, which became PepsiCo in 1965, is now one of the largest multinational conglomerates in the world.
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Rather than hammer a "for sale" sign into the lawn and wait for the open house, these sellers have to set up and run a contest, generating enough buzz around a single property to convince thousands of people to gamble on it.
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While it would be replaced by a 30 percent surcharge when someone buys a policy after dropping coverage, the surcharge could be weaker than the current mandate, and younger people might continue to gamble on not having coverage until they get sick.
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"The consensus of the elites is that President Trump is going to get re-elected, and so that's why I actually think he's going to lose," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday at the Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit.
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If my grandparents had been given the opportunity to gamble on a one-in-1,000 chance of an unusual side effect versus a one-in-two chance of suffering an osteoporotic fracture, then I'm sure they would have opted for bisphosphonate treatment.
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Kent State quarterback Woody Barrett, a transfer from Auburn, produced 387 total yards and 3 touchdowns in his first major-college action as the Golden Flashes unveiled Lewis' FlashFAST offense that combines a hair-trigger tempo with a willingness to gamble on fourth down.
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However, since eight of the boys have now been rescued by divers who equipped them with face masks and escorted them through the partially flooded, 2.5-mile (four kilometer) passageway, it's not clear Thai authorities have any incentive to gamble on Musk's alternative solution.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms.
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If the UFC do take the gamble on Newell, we can only hope that they handle it gracefully, provide the context of Newell's other 15 fights immediately before the contest, and don't reduce him to the circus act that fans seem to be begging for.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A fast-growing challenge by Tokyo's governor, often floated as Japan's first possible female premier, to Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc has highlighted the risk of his gamble on a snap poll as she tries to replicate a historic defeat of his party.
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Having lost his gamble on the referendum outcome, he departs just over a year after leading his party to an outright election victory, a result that freed him from the burden of governing in coalition and should have kept him in power until 2020.
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And, for the purpose of the demo, they completed tasks that normally fall to us mere mortals, whether than meant making a hair appointment or determining whether it would be better to just walk into a restaurant and take a gamble on a table.
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A final decision had been expected at the end of the year but Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's recent gamble on a July 2 election has sped up the process and a winner is now expected to be announced by the end of the month.
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Defying the warnings of every major economic and political institution in Britain, Europe and the United States, millions of voters across Britain concluded that a gamble on a dangerous unknown was better than staying with a present over which they felt they had lost control.
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It's not just that he lost an unnecessary and reckless gamble on a referendum about British membership in the European Union, or that he and his government failed to make any contingency plans about how to manage a withdrawal, or "Brexit," before the vote.
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The beautiful thing about people is [that] we are all different and some want to gamble on items and some don't, so I will just go with whatever games implement and continue to create content that I enjoy and I think people will enjoy!
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"20173 has been a difficult year, prices have come down, sales have come down, and I think '19 and '20 are going to be also not easy years," Hussain Sajwani, chairman of Dubai real estate heavyweight DAMAC Properties told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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After May lost her majority in parliament on June 8 with a failed gamble on a snap election, she tried to secure the backing of the small Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and its 10 lawmakers, though talks had dragged on for more than two weeks.
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The idea was to cater to Trump voters and working-class viewers in general, and as "Roseanne" became the most-watched new show of the 2017-18 television season — drawing plaudits from the president himself — the gamble on Ms. Barr appeared to have paid off.
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In Britain, Theresa May's failed gamble on a snap election could have fed hopes on the Continent of a U-turn on Brexit; instead, it is seen as an annoyance by negotiators in Brussels who are eager to start divorce talks as soon as possible.
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He has proved repeatedly — compulsively, really, both in business and in politics — that he is willing to gamble on his ability to profit from a climate of chaos and threat, to rely on ever-present sense of crisis to fortify and expand his base.
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"We need a relationship of friendship and cooperation for development, not the use of force, not walls, not to gamble on being bad neighbors," Peña Nieto quoted Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the populist leftist candidate who has a double-digit lead in most polls.
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Five years ago, he absolutely would have been, but today, when he's five years shy of 50 and he can no longer gamble on his once legendary chin, he looks like a fairly surmountable challenge for the new champion—outcome of their first fight be damned.
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However, pro-tip: If you're willing to gamble on size availability, historically the discount percentage tends to increase as the days go by, so if you're not quite ready to hit 'buy' now, with careful watching, you may be more keen to in a week or so.
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The company is also issuing a strong apology to people who took a gamble on something entirely new from a business known for its noise-canceling headphones: Finally, for more than 50 years, we've conducted extensive research to do things that no one ever thought possible.
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It was (and remains) a calculated gamble on his part, but it's one built on a solid foundation of modern programming principles and the ability to expand its market dramatically, by not only supporting G Suite, but a variety of SaaS applications in a single management interface.
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So far, turning your money into cryptosex tokens seems advisable if you're willing to bet on a trip to Tittie Island, and not much else (unless you want to cynically gamble on a quick cash-in-and-get-out play, regardless on the coins' technical worth).
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It was Coppola's Godfather gamble on a then-unknown Pacino that made of the upstart Italian actor a leading man, but it was Brian De Palma's rags-to-riches-to-rubble story of a Mariel boatlift refugee who becomes a cocaine kingpin that made him a legend.
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"Security is the basic threshold that everybody thinks about when they make their decision, and if they're comfortable with most candidates on security then they'll vote on other issues," Michael Granoff, founder of Tel Aviv-based venture fund Maniv Mobility, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Tuesday.
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Commendable as LG is for offering features other phone makers have long abandoned, its gamble on this year's semi-modular G5, has all but failed to move the needle; sales were lower than the company expected and it's rumored the G20153 will scrap the modular design.
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ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Neymar needs at least five matches to return to top form after a long injury layoff, but Brazil have not asked their talismanic forward to gamble on his fitness just to be improve their chances at the World Cup, coach Tite said on Thursday.
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"America has stood for rule of law, for justice, for respect of international agreements...and now we see all of that being pushed aside for the sake of internal political calculations," Al-Faisal, a former chief of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday.
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The actions are expected to be a compromise between the companies and union after UAW President Rory Gamble on Sunday urged the automakers to cease production for two weeks due to the spread of the virus in the U.S., including employees from each of the automakers.
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"If this is not contained within the next few months, we will see a big shrinking in the economy because, imagine a country like China, its people not able to go and travel and do commerce and do deals," he told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Wednesday.
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SYDNEY, July 503 (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms.
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Rather than filling up his salary-cap space with expensive players in the expansion draft that rival clubs deemed unworthy of protection, he took a gamble on Vadim Shipachyov (pictured), a 30-year old centre and longtime star for SKA St Petersburg in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
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Fluorescent-soaked, stacked with outmoded computer modules, and littered with the kinds of people who gamble on horse races not actually happening at the track they're visiting on a weekday afternoon, the Northville Downs are an ideal venue for me to finally find the answers I'm looking for.
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Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard & the most ATMs Robinhood's team insisted yesterday that customers would not lose their money in the event that the treasuries in which it invests decline, and that only what users gamble on the stock market would be unprotected, as is standard.
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L.A. is the overwhelming favorite in Las Vegas to win the LeBron James Sweepstakes and just might sign DeMarcus Cousins to a lucrative one-year deal to gamble on the All-Star big man who is still in the midst of his rehabilitation from a season-ending Achilles tear.
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Eaton also took a gamble on weekly history podcast "Throughline," as it's hosted by two NPR producers who hadn't been on the air before pitching the show, but the decision paid off, as it peaked at No. 2 in the Apple Podcasts history category in the US on Jan.
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On Air Force One, Peter will try to finish a new biography of Mikhail Gorbachev (as a former Moscow bureau chief, he's reviewing it for The New York Times) and might listen to the audiobook he has on his phone: "Ike's Gamble," on President Eisenhower and the Middle East.
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Related: The FBI Now Considers Animal Abuse a Class A Felony Sutherland said that before and immediately after the Hunting with Dogs Act 2000 was passed, hare coursing events were static meets where spectators parked up beside fields to gather and gamble on the outcomes of the pursuits.
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She has come out against a referendum herself, but she might find that the only way she can cling to office would be to gamble on one in which her deal was the first option on the ballot paper, exit without a deal the second, while the third would be remain.
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Noting that many LPs work for institutions like pension funds and universities and have investment committees to answer to, he borrowed the old catchphrase that "no one ever got fired for buying IBM," meaning LPs often prefer to write checks to established firms rather than gamble on up-and-comers.
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Mr. Gillum's opponent, Ron DeSantis, described Mr. Gillum in an interview on Fox News as an "articulate spokesman" for far-left views and said voters should not take a gamble on him because he would "monkey this up" — referring to the progress made under Florida's current Republican governor, Rick Scott.
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He does not want to lose his investment — in fact, the mere threat of a losing quarter brought him to gamble on Sandicot in the first place — but the best way for him to get his money back is to take austerity measures that will decimate an already struggling town.
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"Although there may some global headwinds that are affecting some investor appetite, I'm confident with the right structure that we have, in terms of launching these new programs, that foreign and local investors will be coming into these programs," Saudi Transport Minister Minister Nabil Al-Amoudi told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Monday.
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"The impact is more for the crude oil price, because Iran now is exporting about 260 million barrels (per day), and if we go back to the first sanctions, they were exporting 1.5 million," Descalzi told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the ADNOC Downstream Investment Forum in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
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It also can't be someone who looks back on the Obama years with unadulterated fondness, because whatever you think about the man personally, Obama presided over a long period of fermenting discontent which culminated in the electorate opting to gamble on one of the most outlandishly anomalous candidates in all of American history.
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Now Ginsburg's gamble on Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE being elected could have sweeping impact on precedent that she played a major role in creating.
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And rather than visiting individual galleries — and perhaps discovering new talent — collectors are focusing on market-tested trophy works carried by major dealers; are sometimes buying from Instagram or other online images without seeing the work in person; and are less willing to gamble on the emerging artists represented by small and midsize galleries.
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Much of the growing chaos, say many of those who work along the border and in some of the government's own security agencies, is a result of a failed gamble on the part of the Trump administration that a succession of ever-harsher border policies would deter the flood of migrants coming from Central America.
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In New York, Julian Hitchcock, founder of New York's consulting and commercial brokerage firm the F+B Group, says that while independent restaurateurs are willing to pay high lease rates, the tricky part is finding a landlord to gamble on them: It's much safer to rely on a tested national chain with deep-pocketed backers instead.
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Read more:The Warriors cashed in their biggest trade chip to make a massive gamble on Andrew WigginsThe biggest winners and losers of the NBA trade deadlineGiannis Antetokounmpo roasted James Harden during the NBA All-Star draft — 'I want somebody that's going to pass the ball'The 28 highest-paid players in the NBA for the 2019-20 season
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The biggest takeaway: Expect more of the same from the firm, which typically plugs between $10 million and $15 million into its startups; has six investment partners, including firm cofounder Steve Jurvetson; and has become known, largely owing to Jurvetson's bets, as an outfit willing to gamble on companies that are little out there — sometimes literally.
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There is frankly too much to monitor as the N.B.A. machine cranks back up, from the Raptors' gamble on Kawhi Leonard to the Celtics' reacquaintance with the back-from-injury stars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward to the Rockets' contention that one Texas team really is big enough to house James Harden, Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony.
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It's a smart way to connect film's past to its present, and the show has boasted a large collection of eclectic guests, including The Magicians' Sera Gamble on Being John Malkovich, The Post screenwriter Liz Hannah on Silence of the Lambs, and acclaimed director Karyn Kusama on Near Dark (in the series' second episode, no less).
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"For years we've said there is an inverse relationship between how change happens on the regulatory environment and the price of oil -- the lower the price of oil, the faster the change process happens," Ghandour told CNBC's Hadley Gamble on Thursday, pointing to Arab Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates whose economies have historically been dependent on hydrocarbon revenues.
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America can't afford to gamble on a Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE presidency, according to a former solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan.
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My family of three took a gamble on a room with four beds at Milford Sound Lodge in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand two years ago, saving more than $200, and wound up with a roommate, albeit one we never met, who showed up after we were asleep and, unfortunately, set his alarm for hours before we wanted to rise.
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Or do you go, "No, no, we still have to gamble on stuff like this and even if we get it wrong, it's still a worthwhile ..." Or are we getting to a place where you're going to extinguish the McMafias of the world because you're just going to get better data and you'll know there's no way we're putting that out?
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At a time when few Chinese or other investors want to take a gamble on Russia, the forest property, 4,000 miles east of Moscow, beckons deep-pocketed Asians who not only do not mind risk but delight in it — and are ready to wager their money on the baccarat tables and roulette wheels of the Russian Far East's fledgling answer to Las Vegas.
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After May's failed gamble on a snap election, the future of Brexit has been thrown into question with May facing public pressure to temper her plans for a clean break with the EU. While both May's Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party now explicitly support leaving the club the United Kingdom joined in 1973, some of the EU's most powerful politicians have raised the possibility of Britain cancelling Brexit.
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I think the most interesting long-term thing they kind of showed today was this gamble on wireless headphones and earbuds, which have existed for many, many years, were always a pain to set up — every time you want to use them, you have to pair them to your device; if you want to switch them from your iPad to your iPhone, you have to re-pair them.
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The players from the Dwight Howard trade that rocked the NBA and sent the Lakers and Magic into tailspinsKobe Bryant says he talked to legendary 'Star Wars' composer John Williams to improve his leadership skills NBA POWER RANKINGS: Where all 30 teams stand after a wild summer that shook up the leagueThe Knicks' all-in gamble on free agency backfired spectacularly, and now they're forced to pivot to a long, uncertain path
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LONDON (Reuters) - The automatic right of European Union citizens to live and work in Britain will end in March 2019 with Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Monday, after her ministers publicly differed over the shape of the divorce with the EU. Since May's failed gamble on a snap election last month, the future of Brexit has been thrown into question with squabbling between her ministers over the pace, tone and terms of Britain's departure from the club it joined in 1973.
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