They gambled and lost — but baseball lost even bigger.
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I've never played roulette again, and have rarely gambled since.
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Western governments gambled their fiscal credibility to prop up banks.
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"He gambled because it was fun," Eric Paddock told CNN.
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"He gambled his life to own the land," she says.
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"Southgate gambled here," said BBC's chief football writer Phil McNulty.
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Vast sums are gambled in Manila's high-end casinos each day.
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Several idle building sites suggest that some investors have gambled rashly.
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I once gambled away $2,400 and the bank closed my account.
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Two months after publishing his initial public offering plan, Rao gambled.
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Sailors played cards, gambled, got drunk and got into knife fights.
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He also gambled during his stay the weekend of the shooting.
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Would you have gambled for a chance for a better future?
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So they grabbed dinner, gambled, and got drunk in the hotel suite.
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Allen Iverson gambled at SugarHouse Casino today — on doctor's orders, no doubt.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Byrd had gambled with the money he had taken.
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Pat McCrory, gambled that it would energize elements of the party's base.
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And, in so doing, they gambled the entire 252 election on it.
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Risky rats gambled on the iffier lever more than half the time.
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Unfortunately, his mother, the brassy swindler Danny (Adjani), gambled away his savings.
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He says he chatted with him from time to time while Paddock gambled.
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We stayed at the Bellagio and ate, drank, gambled and walked the Strip.
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But it's also fair to say that Baalke has gambled and lost. Often.
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The Super Bowl is the most gambled upon sporting event of the year.
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"Kuroda gambled and lost," said Takuji Okubo, an analyst at Japan Macro Advisors.
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The June 23 vote will be close, closer now that Johnson has gambled.
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Halfway through the decade, online outlets gambled with a huge turn to video.
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People took a gamble on Facebook before it went public; they gambled on Square.
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J, wanted the colt to go further, he gambled by sending it to Dubai.
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Churchill made a second detour to a nearby casino and gambled away $19403,350 (£350).
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Maybe Mr. Peña Nieto gambled that he could change Mr. Trump's position, and lost.
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But this week, in both policy and politics, Mr. McConnell gambled — and lost big.
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Warhol refused, so Mr. Hughes stepped in and gambled his savings on the film.
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"If you get close to 100 percent — that's where he gambled," Eric Paddock said.
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Mr. Paddock gambled as he lived, his brother said — methodically, always weighing the odds.
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We knew the industry required big start-up costs but… we gambled everything on it.
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It is among the most watched and most gambled-on sporting events of the year.
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No general worth his salt ever gambled that his adversary wasn't capable of the unthinkable.
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The hopeful upstarts cut along the way gambled time and money on a rigged table.
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Encouraged by Lee, he gambled his modest nest egg on Ibis and lost it all.
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He gambled for about a year, sort of as a part-time job, she said.
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Mr. Trump also gambled on two dynamics that were already altering the evangelical-Republican relationship.
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Mr. Putin has instead gambled that he can again cut a deal with Mr. Erdogan.
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But then NJoy gambled on an e-cigarette that looked virtually identical to a cigarette.
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Reid gambled that Republicans would be too divided and distracted to put up a fight.
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In 1958, she married Clyde B. Atkins, an abusive charlatan who gambled away her money.
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He gambled on a switch to Premier League rivals Chelsea, in search of playing time.
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He gambled on a personal meeting with President Trump at the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires.
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Then, if the insurers did object, he gambled that they had scant appetite for a fight.
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In other words, if I understand correctly, there is no tax-payer money being gambled here.
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Las Vegas (CNN)He was a nocturnal creature who gambled all night and slept all day.
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Mr. Obama gambled that Mr. Putin's adventurism in Ukraine and Syria would eventually backfire for Russia.
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Syriza gambled on a threat of Greek secession when Greece already faced the risk of expulsion.
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A T-shirt, a coffee cup, a package of cookies — these could be traded or gambled.
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A survey in 2016 found that 83% had gambled at least once in the past year.
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Instead, he gambled on splitting the case into two trial tracks, in two demographically different courts.
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Bobbitt told The Inquirer that he believes D'Amico may have gambled away some of the crowdfunded money.
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He had gambled in recent years, not renewing his flood insurance because it had gotten too expensive.
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The Conservative party under Theresa May gambled on a snap election to deliver a "mandate for Brexit".
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He had gambled on the hope that the contents of this flashcard would serve him as collateral.
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The killer often gambled in Erie, Pennsylvania, and he slept in his car when he went there.
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She had gambled that they would give her a vote of confidence, instead she barely hung on.
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NASA gambled heavily on SpaceX and is, presumably, now feeling the effects of that wager: the delays.
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We wanted to explore a quieter corner of Lesbos and gambled on Plomari on the southern coast.
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He drank with them, gambled with them, and slept with them; one of them he married twice.
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The Cubs had gambled themselves, pulling starter Jon Lester after only 77 pitches and six solid innings.
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And in the days before the shooting, Paddock gambled, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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Turkey, that they paid so much and gambled everything up to and including life itself, to leave.
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Mr. Trump has gambled that China's softening economy will put pressure on Beijing's leaders to back down.
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He gambled on gaining the required 113 votes in the 225-seat parliament to validate Mr Rajapaksa's appointment.
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He's gambled less this season, resulting in fewer mistakes, and he's maneuvering screens much better despite his frame.
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Etihad gambled on foreign investments because it needed to beef up its organic growth with non-organic feed.
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You're growing your winnings more slowly by leaving more won money out on the table to be gambled.
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America's future cannot be gambled with because America is the present and the future at a global level.
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Revoking that right would have almost certainly helped Remain win the referendum, but Brussels gambled, refused and lost.
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As U.S.-led coalition forces are withdrawn, the stability of Iraq is gambled on relying upon Baghdad's strength.
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The signs began to emerge in the mid-1990s, as Republicans in Congress gambled on a government shutdown.
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They gambled that, by weaponizing sordid gossip, they could simply bully their way past the presumption of innocence.
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Busch, who had gambled on fuel and tires, appeared to have the advantage as the final stretch approached.
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The Federal Reserve gambled on what's known as quantitative easing in order to help the housing market recover.
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Yet the Tories have gambled, choosing a populist leader who is nobody's idea of a safe pair of hands.
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So he gambled on a massive drive, which swerved through the pines, over a creek and into a shrub.
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After one ugly disturbance, he was asked to leave the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, where he sometimes gambled.
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Politicians constantly thinking about the next election have often gambled that a change of boss might improve their chances.
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Heat coach Eric Spoelstra gambled and left his big man in the game, switching to a 2-3 zone.
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Eric says Stephen liked to "hang out," gambled a bit, and had never shown any religious or political inclination.
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Here's the thing ... Geragos, who gambled with $15k, is a liberal democrat and very clearly does not support Trump.
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The audience has already learned that one man beats his wife, while another has gambled away the family store.
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Joe Donnelly Primary date: May 21.2 Donnelly is a ripe target: He gambled entering the 25 race against Sen.
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If you gambled on women's college basketball on Wednesday night, and you had Bluefield State plus 393, you lost.
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Mr. Hernández had gambled that voters would be willing to hand him more power in exchange for increased security.
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In Vegas, Thompson had an 503-hour break between presentations, during which time she gambled, napped, ate and drank.
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In the process, it comfortably defeated the party's new leader, Paul Nuttall, who had gambled by running there personally.
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In 2009, schedulers gambled by moving it from a Sunday pre-lunch backwater slot to prime time early evening.
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"The defendant gambled that the store was a soft target," prosecutors wrote in a brief in Mr. Mankouche's case.
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The Donut King himself didn't fare so well: he gambled away his stores, got divorced and moved back to Cambodia.
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He gambled on baseball as a player and a manager, and that was reckless and deserving of a hard thwack.
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Britain privatised large swathes of its economy, declared "manufacturing" old hat and gambled its future on services, particularly financial ones.
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Afterwards he said the bone was actually still 'broken' and that he had gambled on himself to win a medal.
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"I've never gambled in my life," Donald Trump bragged in 1987, when building casinos was his main claim to fame.
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If people knew the amount of money I gambled playing poker, they would really be absolutely mortified in some cases.
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Indeed, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch two days ago was a huge win for conservative voters who gambled on Trump.
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Trust in May's handling of Brexit has evaporated since she gambled away her parliamentary majority in an election in June.
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Studios have not gambled on a major release on a super-heroine since Twentieth Century Fox's "Elektra" and Warner Bros.
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At the time, more flights were getting equipped with power outlets, so I gambled mine would have one nearby. Jackpot!
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Catcher Rene Rivera gambled and let it roll, and the ball instead stopped dead on the first-base foul line.
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Koenning didn't get Clemson's top job when Phillips gambled on the 38-year-old wide receivers coach to replace Bowden.
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Linda, whose business was gambled away by her husband at the beginning of the movie, buys back her pageant dress store.
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Renzi has even gambled his political future on the referendum having said he would resign if a "yes" vote is rejected.
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"They allegedly gambled away the money or spent it lavishly while leaving everyone in the lurch," Thompson said in the statement.
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"He's just a guy who lived in a house in Mesquite and drove down and gambled in Las Vegas," he said.
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The signal only spiked in non-risky rats, however; it was negligible in rats that always gambled for the sucrose windfall.
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Last year, the American Gaming Association estimated $150 billion is gambled around the world per year in legal and illegal settings.
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Traders say that much of the selling in recent weeks has come from funds that gambled that markets would remain calm.
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Some noted that they had gambled on sporting events long before Thursday, but they were relieved the process was now legal.
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It gambled on that continuing demand, investing in new hubs and focus cities, upgraded terminal buildings and airport infrastructure, and more.
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"He gambled on successfully killing his wife and being able to hide her body and get away with murder," he said.
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Now is the time for Republicans to abandon ship and admit that they gambled with the legitimacy of this political experiment.
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But around the same time, Hewlett-Packard (HPE) gambled on enterprise services, which was a big growth market 10 years ago.
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Criminals who gambled their body parts in a card game would do so to demonstrate their strength of spirit, bravado, and ruthlessness.
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With the G6, LG is expected to completely move away from the modular strategy it gambled on with the G5 in 2016.
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If they didn't, then that suggests they gambled on dissembling the truth in the hope that nobody besides Jacobs could contradict them.
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"He spent a lot of his time at a bar down the street where he gambled and drank," she told the daily.
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With a 7.9% yield, investors clearly gambled they could get a decent return on the bond before Argentina hits economic trouble again.
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The Clermont Club had become his home, where he gambled his fortune away while she sat white with stress in the shadows.
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The young independent candidate had gambled early that a space might open up in the liberal centre; his intuition served him well.
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Twitter has gambled on Muzik in the hopes of creating another hardware avenue of engagement that's not your phone, tablet or computer.
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Sanders has gambled that his laser-like focus on economic inequality will distract attention from the issues where he feels less comfortable.
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Fund managers gambled that strong exports coupled with a new wave of combined-cycle power plants would tighten gas stocks this summer.
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However, I take issue with the idea that I "gambled" in prosecuting the six officers for Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.'s death.
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Clayton Kershaw gambled to get a matchup he liked better, and the risky move paid off, resulting in a fourth scoreless inning.
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" Greenberg, she tweeted, left AIG before the bailout but not before running the company "as it recklessly gambled on mortgage-backed securities.
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Every night, Lucan gambled at the Clermont Club, while Veronica was expected to sit in a women's area called the "widow's bench."
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Levy has gambled that Mourinho is not yesterday's man, but that is not the only risk he has taken in appointing him.
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Indeed, the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as a Supreme Court justice was a huge win for conservative voters who gambled on Trump.
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"I loved for people to think of me as a genius who gambled ever more carelessly with his life," the musician ruefully muses.
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Microsoft might have gambled and made the wrong decision here, but I feel like for most people USB-C simply doesn't matter yet.
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BYU gambled on fourth-and-a-foot from its own 383 with 2:17 left, and Romney dove ahead for the first down.
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They have gambled that concerted pressure on the authorities to respect the election date will bring about Congo's first peaceful transition of power.
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Brent Burns gambled with a missed poke check at center, which allowed speedy Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon to skate around the Sharks defenseman.
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Ultimately some of the vets drank and some gambled, and most slept on bleachers or on the floor in an auditorium without blankets.
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Media coverage across the U.K. has been unanimous: Prime Minister Theresa May has gambled on her government's future and it has badly backfired.
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In January, Madrid gambled on ousting the experienced coach Rafael Benítez and appointing Zinedine Zidane, an iconic former player but an untested coach.
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Rajoy had gambled on unionist parties taking control of Catalonia's regional government, which he sacked in October for illegally pursuing independence from Spain.
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Instead, Pelosi gambled on their anxiety, prioritizing a baffling array of low-priority issues ahead of the life-or-death matters troubling Americans.
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A few years ago, they gambled that the running back DeMarco Murray would age quickly, and they let him go in free agency.
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Mr. Trump has gambled and lost, and his superheated ego and lack of judgment have backed him into a very tight, uncomfortable corner.
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But the interests of corporations, large and small, that gambled on these products cannot trump the health and safety of an entire generation.
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I gambled on the actors who had never been in anything, telling a story like this, and making a movie under these conditions.
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The rights, protections and identities of trans people are being gambled, not in a court of law but in the court of public opinion.
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Cersei gambled her child's life with reckless abandon all the time, despite everyone insisting that maternal instincts were the bedrock of her moral justifications.
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Grubauer gambled by leaving his net and attempting a poke check, but Laughton held onto the puck and tucked it into an open net.
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It was a frustrating setback for Kaine, who had gambled his political capital on gun control in a historically pro-gun, Republican-leaning state.
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He also gambled, fouled, and relied way too often on a recklessness that will annihilate Milwaukee in the playoffs if he keeps it up.
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I might have done it in a different way and I have huge reservations about the way he gambled, but those are his choices.
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Detroit gambled on fourth-and-goal from the 2 on its next possession and got rewarded as Stafford hit Jones with a scoring pass.
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President Trump mocked "Crazy Jim Acosta," saying even the correspondent from "Fake News CNN" agrees that Democrats "gambled and lost" over the government shutdown.
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Rouhani and his allies gambled, investing the whole of their political capital in the nuclear deal with the U.S. and five other world powers.
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He gambled that neither Moon nor Trump could stop him while he secured the leverage he'd need when he got to the negotiating table.
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Costa Rica gambled in the second half, removing the increasingly isolated Campbell for Randall Azofeifa, but the Ticos never seemed to regain their shape.
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Second, if a sport has been gambled on, it's plausible that match-fixing can or already has occurred on some level, at some time.
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As art prices soared, the big international houses gambled with guarantees and sacrificed commissions to attract the most valuable lots, squeezing their own margins.
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I gambled on the wafer, which was a crumbly savory cookie made from black currants and dried onions and brushed with black currant jam.
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The Jets won when their embattled coach, Todd Bowles, gambled after Darnold was stopped at the 1 on third-and-goal from the 4.
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A year later, the partners gambled on a new federal court rule that facilitated class-action suits by one plaintiff on behalf of many.
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After an inspiring trip to Nashville, chef Johnny Ray Zone and his wife, Amanda Chapman, gambled everything on bringing hot chicken to Los Angeles.
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Rouhani gambled on attracting foreign investment to help raise living standards but a raft of deals including plane purchases have been already been delayed.
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"Just ask Theresa May," he added, referring to the former prime minister who gambled and lost her majority in a risky snap election in 2017.
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Her father was "wise" enough to have gambled away all his assets before 1949, so he was declared a "middle-level farmer" after the revolution.
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His team gambled that it could finish the final laps of the race without refueling, and Rossi roared into the lead and coasted to victory.
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Unless the pitcher had exceptional command, like the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw, Harper gambled that his opponent could not outlast him or throw three straight strikes.
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He gambled that a moderate Republican, who said he disliked government but realized voters wanted it, might succeed in passing legislation where Democrats had failed.
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Caspersen, who said he also gambled away $20 million of his own money, in court apologized for harming the people he cared for the most.
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He travels everywhere with eight Thai-boxer bodyguards and once gambled away the equivalent of $66 million in a single night in Macao, Reuters reported.
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He also loves horse racing and gambling and is said to have gambled away the equivalent of $66 million in a single night in Macao.
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On an individual basis, Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group gambled early and publicly on Mr. Trump, despite protests inside and outside his firm.
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Details about Mr. Paddock's career and livelihood were sparse, aside from observations by neighbors and family members that he routinely gambled large amounts of money.
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Britain's relationship with Europe has been a toxic issue for the Conservatives for years, which is why Mr. Cameron gambled on a referendum — and lost.
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Booker, like his fellow Generation X candidates, Castro and Beto O'Rourke, gambled on the belief that campaign 2020 would witness a generational shift in leadership.
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So it looks somewhat like Broadcom gambled on an end-run around regulators, and when that failed, was left holding the bag on the relocation anyways.
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Bacon gambled, usually losing, and his sexual escapades, mostly in retrospect by his late 50s, tended to the rough stuff, the violent couplings of his paintings.
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Microsoft gambled with the release of a convertible operating system that could bridge the device between PC and tablet, and it appears to have paid off.
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As we reported ... Simmons said the Enquirer gambled he wouldn't sue because it'd make it seem like he thinks there's something wrong with people who transition.
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He recalled a visit during which Paddock took him out to eat "thousands of dollars of sushi," all comped by a casino hotel where he gambled.
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Shaleta told VICE that despite Saka's admission, he's skeptical that the money was actually gambled and is holding his conclusion until the police finish their investigation.
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ERBIL (Reuters) - There are no winners among Iraq's Kurds, just weeks after Kurdish president Masoud Barzani gambled away his people's autonomy in a defiant independence referendum.
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Mr. Stahl said that Mr. Garrett and Billy the Kid, who also went by William H. Bonney and Henry McCarty, were friends who once gambled together.
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In production of the Model 3, Mr. Musk gambled by creating an assembly line that relies much more heavily on automated equipment and robots than workers.
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Coach Mack Brown, in his first season back on the Tar Heels sideline, gambled with the two-point play as he looked for a signature victory.
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While Mr. Trump had gambled that Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, would back down, she has made clear that she has no interest in compromise.
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The Tory MPs who backed Mr Johnson in the contest have gambled that his eccentric style will win voters round and revive their hopes of re-election.
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The MLB instituted a lifetime ban against Rose in 1989 amid accusations that he gambled on baseball games while he played for and managed the Cincinnati Reds.
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In the days leading up to the shooting, Paddock gambled, returned to his home in Mesquite, Nevada, and continued to bring more suitcases into his hotel room.
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Here's the 30,000-foot view: the Texans had a problem at quarterback, and they gambled on who they thought was the best logical solution to fix it.
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So they gambled their savings on one human trafficker after another, crossing Turkey and voyaging to Lesbos, only to discover that they'd traded one hell for another.
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One Irish betting site thinks Trump is so sure to lose that it paid out $1.1 million to people who gambled on Clinton three weeks before Election Day.
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The former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, gambled on settling a 40-year feud within the Conservative Party over membership of the European Union with last June's referendum.
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Toronto gambled and lost big on Donaldson this year, betting that his return to health would be the catalyst for one more playoff run with its aging core.
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The North gambled that the South wouldn't risk being hit by Northern nukes (and its conventional arsenal) over one destroyer, and so wouldn't respond with all-out war.
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Dismissing the advice of his aides and flying here to campaign for Mr. Strange, Mr. Trump gambled that he alone could reverse Mr. Strange's deficit in the polls.
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Executives at NBC — who re-edited Ms. Kelly's segment throughout the week and have gambled millions of dollars on her success — were likely to be feeling some relief.
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Pence and Pompeo are hardly alone in having forged Faustian bargains with Donald Trump, or in having gambled that they will somehow survive his heedlessness and serial disloyalty.
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The Interpreter Theresa May, Britain's prime minister, has joined a long line of politicians who have gambled that they understood the populist wave overtaking Western politics and lost.
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I'm sure I tossed some things unnecessarily (the corn cakes at the very back were probably fine) and may have unwisely gambled (but it was flourless chocolate cake!).
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Another customer, who also had an annual salary of about 30,000 pounds, gambled 654,000 pounds over nine months with no checks on the source of funds, it said.
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Braden Riess said that Lois gambled away a $500,000 inheritance and reports indicated that she was more than $100,000 in debt at the time of her husband&aposs death.
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In one video posted on Facebook, Stephens said that he gambled away everything and that he and his girlfriend had planned to marry but did not, without saying why.
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Blogger comments in recent days indicate that the cryptocurrency price crash is causing real pain for the many who gambled that cryptocurrency prices would keep spiraling upward and upward.
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A background investigation into John McEntee — who was fired and escorted out of the White House earlier this week — found that he often gambled, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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He learned this lesson the hard way: After selling his first company for $15 million, Altucher gambled all that money away on bad investments during the dot-com bubble.
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Mr. Ryan told colleagues he refused to be held hostage by the upstarts, then gambled that he would find enough votes to pass the legislation, despite unified Democratic opposition.
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A Catholic priest in London, Ontario is being investigated by police because he may have gambled away half a million dollars meant to help refugees, according to his bishop.
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The company reportedly gambled with minivans that could spontaneously combust, because it would be a big pain to fix them, and well, the drivers and passengers would probably be fine.
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And after he signed a maximum contract extension, Wiggins barely qualified as the third-wheel on a good team, which is what the Timberwolves gambled on him to immediately be.
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A Las Vegas Strip casino host who told police that he met Stephen Paddock several times when he gambled over the years says he had a bit of a temper.
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From SpankChain to TittieCoin, over a dozen aptly-named digital coins are angling to turn your hard-gambled cryptocurrency into sex—in the form of dildos, escort services, and porn.
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It was a rough place — men sold drugs on the street and gambled on tables at the club across from their apartment — but no one considered it unsafe for kids.
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Ahn gambled on high turnout from his base, fired up to see the first Korean-American in Congress in more than 85033 years, to outperform the district's large Latino population.
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The young dictator has gambled for a U.S. deal by releasing three American prisoners, ceasing nuclear arms and rocket test-firings and even staging a destruction of some nuclear facilities.
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Feature In the midst of a national crisis of police violence, Baltimore's state's attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city.
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Lamb had gambled that ultra-rich collectors, who buy and sell precious art works for record-breaking sums at auction, would do the same with a diamond in the raw.
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On Thursday Roberts summed up the reputation Taylor brought to spring training this season: "a fringy, 4-A player" who had gambled on a swing change to save his career.
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The two men also started traveling together, Mr. Martínez recalled: once to Los Angeles, where Mr. Guzmán spent $6 million buying airplanes, and then to Las Vegas, where they gambled.
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When Mexico gambled on ending decades of state control of its energy industry, officials said they hoped the move would promote investment and give the country access to technical expertise.
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She had married Harry Karl, a wealthy shoe retailer, in 12, but by the time they divorced in 229, he had gambled away or otherwise misspent his fortune and hers.
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Brown and West, who supposedly discussed "multicultural issues" with Trump, may have gambled that their personal celebrity could forge a bond with a president-elect whose love for glitz is unmatched.
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British newspapers have been awash with speculation that Johnson will soon mount a leadership challenge after May gambled away a parliamentary majority in an election she did not need to call.
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John Kasich, meanwhile, repeatedly criticized the tone on the stage and gambled that enough South Carolina Republicans would be turned off by what they heard to provide an opening for him.
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" Paddock said he rarely drank alcohol when he gambled, because "at the stakes I play, you want to have all your wits about you, or as much wit as I have.
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Saudi policymakers have also gambled a limited rise in prices will only cause a limited resurgence in shale output and this can be absorbed by the market thanks to demand growth.
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The betting rules would famously come into play decades later, when Pete Rose, who gambled on dozens of his own games during his career in the 1980s, was banned for life.
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Instead, Trump gambled big on his ability to influence the outcome of the Republican primary, taking active steps that made the campaign more and more a test of his presidential coattails.
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Pete Rose, who got more hits than anybody in MLB history, continues to serve a lifetime ban for having gambled on the outcomes of 20th century games while still in uniform.
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Murray's character Vincent MacKenna, a grumpy retiree who drank and gambled, used the phrase "in the context of a race and in a clear attempt to imitate" Johnson, the complaint said.
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Editorial Her predecessor, David Cameron, gambled on a referendum to put an end to talk of leaving the European Union — and lost, setting Britain on course for isolation and economic upheaval.
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He spoke about how he gambled with a mythical figure known in the sheriff's office as the Wood Chipper, because, supposedly, he had used such a device to kill a woman.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Veronica Harwood-Stevenson gambled her life savings on research into a rare species of bee, she had no way of knowing whether it would pay off.
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David Cameron gambled the future of the country on a simple referendum—51% and you're out—whereas other countries, confronted with less momentous decisions, opt for two-stage votes and super-majorities.
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One time, Stephens gambled until his bank account dwindled to zero, then slept overnight in his car until more money became available in his bank account the next morning, his brother said.
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CAMDEN, N.J. — The state takeover of this troubled city's school district gambled on a big question: After years of experiments with more money and charter schools, could anything improve education in Camden?
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British Prime Minister Theresa May gambled away her parliamentary majority in a snap election in June and so far there has been little clarity as to how the Brexit negotiations will proceed.
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Both banks had in the past gambled on high-yielding Greek government bonds which blasted holes in their balance sheets when Greece's debt was restructured under another EU/IMF rescue in 2012.
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Sanders had gambled big on Michigan, pouring in resources and time with the expectation that the state would be receptive to his populist economic message and criticism of American free trade agreements.
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Football is the most gambled on sport in the US.In New Jersey, where the most money is legally wagered on sports outside of Nevada, $939 million was wagered on football in 2019.
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Juris Jurjevics, a founder of Soho Press, an independent publisher that gambled on unsolicited manuscripts by emerging writers and produced serious novels and exotic crime stories, died on Wednesday in the Bronx.
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Many banks have gambled with deposits or run Ponzi schemes with impunity for years, in part because they are owned by well-connected elites, religious foundations or the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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In hindsight, it is not clear how much of an opportunity was lost to end the war, but Nixon could not have known that when he gambled with Vietnamese and American lives.
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The declining support creates a challenge for Warren, who gambled on not devising her own health care plan, like other candidates, but instead telling voters "I'm with Bernie" on Medicare for All.
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As such, it will tell a tale for history of the current political moment in which the President gambled on ruling by division rather than uniting the nation in a broad coalition.
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Like Sarah, Abigail was born into gentility, but when she was still very young her father gambled her away to a German who married her and forced himself on her for years.
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At the same time, the United States, which has been pushing to oust Mr. Maduro, gambled on a strategy of sanctions and other pressure that it thought would work quickly, but hasn't.
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Like hundreds of other parents in her shoes, Julieta gambled that the long and often dangerous route her kids would take would lead to a safer and financially more stable life for them.
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"Kurz gambled away his chances and, Mr Chancellor, you bear full responsibility," the Social Democrats' (SPO) deputy parliamentary faction head Joerg Leichtfried said in a speech, minutes before his party submitted the motion.
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Another oddity of the pre-referendum betting was the existence of a big split; those who gambled a lot of money thought Remain would win, small gamblers thought correctly it would be leave.
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Whether it is legal or not, the administration has gambled that it is good policy, one that is being challenged vigorously and vociferously in the court of public opinion — and perhaps, in Congress.
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The good news for the "Deal or No Deal" contestant who gambled and lost BIG -- his wife's not divorcing him ... however, he's fully in his mom's doghouse for pissing away more than $300k.
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Shorn of a parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002, the AK party should have sought a coalition partner, but instead Mr Erdogan boldly gambled on a new election on November 1st.
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On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump gambled on his own "Mission Accomplished" moment by tweeting: Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.
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David Cameron, the prime minister who had gambled on the straight in-or-out vote to beat back anti-Europeans threatening to split his Conservative Party, was the first to announce his resignation.
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Every doctor I know has more than one story about a patient who died because they chose to try to alkalinize their blood or gambled on intravenous vitamins instead of getting cancer care.
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But rather than rallying southern society behind his rule, as Thieu had implausibly gambled, the Democracy Party further alienated the country's most committed anti-communists, who instead pledged to uphold their previous allegiances.
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Nick Leeson, the bank's then 28-year-old head of derivatives in Singapore, gambled more than $1 billion in unhedged, unauthorized speculative trades, an amount which dwarfed the venerable merchant bank's cash reserves.
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We gambled on seats in the back again as the flight was pretty open a week ago, but seems it got all booked up and we end up with someone next to us.
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The culmination of the campaign was an attack on the Confederate defenses at Cold Harbor, where Grant gambled that Lee's decimated army would be so exhausted it would fall to a Union onslaught.
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After I made some money I spent too much of it, gambled too much of it, bought too much with it, and invested in all of the wrong people with the wrong businesses.
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The Trump administration gambled that a barrage of sanctions in January and February would undermine Mr. Maduro so quickly that his armed forces would turn on him and install Mr. Guaidó as president.
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And while people in Illinois have gambled a lot more, most of the additional money has ended up in the hands of a small group of companies that own and operate video gambling machines.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday gambled his political fate on a budget that he hopes will shore up his dwindling appeal with voters without blowing out the country's budget deficit.
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We're told the All-Pro RB, Sean Lee, Connor Williams and other Dallas stars hit up Aria's casino on Friday and gambled away the pain from their playoff loss for most of the day.
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Now, the exuberance of the independence vote has been replaced with the painful belief that Iraq's Kurdish leadership gambled away the hard-fought autonomy which their region has enjoyed since the 1991 Gulf War.
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When the talks with Unidas Podemos collapsed, Mr. Sánchez gambled that voters would give him a stronger negotiating mandate, after his Socialists won the election in April but did not gain a parliamentary majority.
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In pushing for OPEC and non-OPEC production cuts, Saudi Arabia gambled that the cuts could drain excess inventories before shale production ramps up and starts adding extra barrels to the global supply picture.
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He was distant when he was not cruel, he was a bully when the stakes were small and a tyrant when they were steeper; he gambled on everything, because he could never win enough.
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I read profiles of Paddock -- he gambled, dabbled in real estate, took Valium for his nerves and hated to be out in the sun -- and instinctively felt I knew the place he called home.
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Delay has been a frequent tactic of Prime Minister Theresa May, who has gambled that the pressure of a looming deadline for departure would persuade lawmakers to accept her plan for withdrawal, or Brexit.
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The takeaway: The declining support creates a challenge for Warren, who gambled on not devising her own health care plan, like other candidates, but instead telling voters "I'm with Bernie" on Medicare for All.
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Schlichter gambled heavily in college, a habit that continued in the N.F.L. By the end of his first season, he had lost nearly $400,000 to four Baltimore-area bookmakers and $220,000 in other bets.
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"I gambled with 'Angels,' which is set in the Reagan era but which I felt would be historically significant 30, 40, 50 years later, because something really fundamental had shifted under Reagan," he said.
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Harry Karl began his marriage to Reynolds as a wealthy businessman, but he quietly gambled away his fortune—and hers—when he wasn't busy rushing "manicurists" (who were actually prostitutes) into the couple's home.
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"I suspect that history books will remember 2016 as the year that both sides of the Atlantic gambled on populism; 2019 will be remembered as the year that those risky bets went bust," Klaas said.
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With the second season, Donald Glover has gambled on one of the riskiest propositions an auteur can: shrinking the expanse of his show and turning the camera to the prejudices and motivations of its audience.
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But instead of the funds being used for actual construction work, the couple gambled much of it away at seven casinos in Atlantic City and bought a $20153,000 diamond ring, the attorney general's office said.
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The bulk of the nation's voters have gambled enough to give him the presidency; Trump certainly should at least have what it takes to encourage enough of the people to keep calm and carry on.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India have gambled on the fitness of Mohammed Shami by including the injury-prone paceman in the 15-man squad named on Friday for next month's World Twenty20 tournament on home soil.
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Designers, manufacturers and stylists gambled, taking a garment that hadn't been fashionable for more than half a century, that was associated with the elderly, the unappealing, and the menstruating, and made it a fashion staple.
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A favorite with grassroots members of the Conservative Party, Johnson had been expected to challenge for the leadership after May gambled away her parliamentary majority in a June election she did not need to call.
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With America's rapid transition to a clean energy economy, protecting taxpayers from self-bonded coal companies that gambled and lost in our energy markets is one of the most important issues facing DOI and OSMRE.
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The problem for currency traders is that the risks go both ways: a vote to remain in the EU would probably push the pound up, making life hard for those who had gambled on Brexit.
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In 2014, millennials made up 27 percent of all visitors to Las Vegas, but only 63 percent of them actually gambled, compared to 78 percent of baby boomers and 68 percent of Generation X visitors.
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Reversal Trump's decision to relent was a reversal since he had gambled that he could use the plight of the children and public outrage to ram through his hardline changes to immigration police in legislation.
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The blog post was followed by a series of other reports about the culture at Uber, including a New York Times report describing a Las Vegas meeting where Uber employees drank, gambled and used cocaine.
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Investigators are still trying to trace that money and also looking into a least a dozen financial reports over the past several weeks that said Paddock gambled more than $10,000 per day, the official said.
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In 2011, case maker Hard Candy gambled on a teardrop-shaped iPhone 4s (which rumors at the time referred to as the iPhone 5) and lost tens of thousands on its first-to-market strategy.
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The agents, working out of an office in Northern Virginia, gambled that by watching patiently, they might piece together how China had decimated the United States' spy network, and determine whether Mr. Lee had helped.
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The Thunder, though, gambled on a trade for George anyway and used their full season together to successfully win George over and persuade him to sign with the Thunder as Russell Westbrook's new marquee sidekick.
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Or did you know that the first U.S. bank created for freed African slaves, the Freedman's Bureau, went bankrupt because its white president gambled their cash on a bad investment, and everyone lost their savings?
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Cohn and staff secretary Rob Porter gambled that the President's attention span is so limited, they could handle him as one would handle a toddler, whisking away fragile objects before he noticed they were there.
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FTSE gained 1.1 percent by 0720 GMT after Britons dealt the governing Conservative party a punishing blow, denying May the increased mandate she had gambled on, with no clear winner emerging from Thursday's parliamentary election.
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It was the first of April, but I had gambled — with each year, the flowers were opening earlier and earlier, and I was hoping I might see them just as they were beginning to bud.
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Both ratings agencies also pointed to the weakened state of Prime Minister Theresa May's government, after she gambled her majority in parliament away in an election earlier this year that she did not need to call.
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Kirkus Reviews says that it's an "unusual, intriguing novel that's both a paranoid fantasy about a world where anyone can be bought and a broody tale about what really matters when anything can be gambled away."
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The shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, was seen on numerous occasions in Las Vegas without any person accompanying him and he gambled the night before the shooting, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference.
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Not only this, but the items have a sort of black market value and are traded among players and indeed gambled in a highly unregulated economy that reports put on the order of billions of dollars.
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It also shows you how the team spent their time when they weren't shooting and driving—they gambled, they smoked pot (in states where recreational use is legal), and they stuffed their faces with regional delicacies.
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May's future as leader of the ruling Conservative Party has been subject to heightened speculation after she gambled on a snap election last year which went badly wrong and cost her party its majority in parliament.
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With parliament in deadlock, he has gambled that an election is the only way to break the logjam so he can push through the last-minute Brexit deal he struck this month with the European Union.
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"We started too slow and spotted them too many points, gambled too much, left our feet too many times on closeouts and made it easy for them in the first quarter," said Grizzlies coach Dave Joerger.
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As the United States was distracted by multiple wars, Britain gambled its future on a referendum to leave the European Union and France failed to reform itself, Ms. Merkel's Germany was mostly a haven of stability.
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Reader has previously admitted he couldn't sleep and increasingly gambled during a two-year investigation into the 2016 murders of eight members of the Rhoden family, a case that thrust the department onto the national stage.
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Stuart Hamblen, a "radio cowboy" who drank and gambled before Graham convinced him to stop backsliding, was an early convert, telling his radio audience he "heard the heavenly switchboard click" one night at the Canvas Cathedral.
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Millions of metric tons of nachos will be consumed, thousands of Crying Jordan memes will either delight or annoy fans of the Carolina Panthers or the Denver Broncos, and billions of dollars will be gambled away.
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Paddock, reportedly a multimillionaire who gambled frequently, is also believed to have bought a ticket for his live-in girlfriend, Marilou Danley, to leave the country and visit the Philippines about a week prior to the shooting.
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Survey data and visitor reports gathered by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority support this: The percentage of visitors who gambled while in Las Vegas in 2014 was 71 percent, down from 2503 percent in 2006.
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The Arab Spring stirred hopes of reversing this bleak trend, and Mr. Obama initially gambled on its success, defying old allies like Saudi Arabia and Israel and expressing support for pro-democracy movements in Egypt and Tunisia.
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Facebook has previously gambled on other futuristic technologies — including virtual reality, with a $2 billion purchase of Oculus, the virtual reality goggles maker, in 2014 — but Mr. Zuckerberg has acknowledged that it has had difficulty finding traction.
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PULLING BACK Hedge funds have gambled heavily on an oil price recovery this year, pricing in accelerating growth, a restrictive output policy from Saudi Arabia and continued tensions short of war between the United States and Iran.
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Manfred banned Correa for life on Monday, putting him in the dubious company of Pete Rose, the hit king who gambled away his baseball future, and Jenrry Mejia, the former Mets reliever and three-time drug cheat.
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Sanchez had gambled on a repeat ballot to break the political deadlock after failing to agree what had seemed a natural alliance with the left-wing Unidas Podemos - which gave up seven seats on Sunday to score 35.
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She wrapped up her latest victory with a first-time clearance at 4.82m, having brushed the bar faintly, as Morris, having failed once at that height, then gambled on pushing the bar up to 4.89m and failed twice.
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The airlines gambled and lost on the premise that ultralow "unbundled" fares would attract customers who would then pay more for things like seat assignments, drinks, checked bags, and food — things that are typically included on traditional carriers.
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Mr. Trump gambled that the show of amity could crack the nuclear logjam, underscoring his faith in the power of his own personal diplomacy — even with brutal strongmen like Mr. Kim — to achieve what past presidents could not.
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Mr. Trump, who himself had no government or military experience before this year, gambled that Mr. Tillerson would be able to translate his formidable skills in the corporate world to international diplomacy after 41 years at Exxon Mobil.
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It came after the Rams gambled on defense by calling a pair of timeouts, but the Panthers converted a third down and then went on to gain two more first downs and end up in field-goal position.
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One—recently "saved and bathed in the blood of Jesus"—acknowledged that the husband in question was a "pretty-boy" pissant who fathered outside children, gambled away the grocery money, and had left his wife with a black eye.
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"Nobody would have gambled that a man with such a thin political résumé would have made it in less than two years, (defeating) a former prime minister and other luminaries in the French election," Le Corre said of Macron.
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It's likely, too, that Limón isn't faking his revulsion over Escobar's indiscriminate viciousness and instead saw this plan to ambush Carrillo as merely the best way to save a woman who gambled her life on his assurance of safety.
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Having gambled his political future on the chance to lead his party and country through the aftermath of the "Brexit" referendum on whether to exit the European Union, Mr. Johnson found on Thursday that his luck had run out.
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And so the death-of-liberalism tomes and eulogies are having their day, with the publishers who bet on apocalypse rubbing their hands with pleasure and the ones who gambled on more of the same weeping like, well, babies.
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After rolling out the welcome mat in September for Syrian refugees streaming into Europe, to the alarm of many European leaders who were not consulted, she has now gambled on a last-minute deal with Turkey to stop the migrant flow.
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"Kurz gambled away his chances and, Mr Chancellor, you bear full responsibility," the Social Democrats' (SPO) deputy parliamentary faction head Joerg Leichtfried said in a speech to lawmakers, minutes before his party submitted a motion of no-confidence against Kurz's government.
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Although there's little evidence that Antoinette actually uttered, "let them eat cake" in response to learning her subjects had no bread, she did spend lavishly on fashion and luxuries and gambled heavily while France sank into major debt in the 1770s.
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Kasahara is said to have aided a former restaurant operator's betting scheme by collecting money from two other former Giants players, and gambled a total of 1.2 million yen ($11,838.99) himself between September 2014 and August 2015, the report said.
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She and I had been texting throughout the trip about her experiences in Copenhagen when she was younger, and she and her sister had gambled coins in Tivoli when they were there, so I think she'll like the notebook ($15.99).
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On the other hand, they have regained it from the feckless and reeling Republican Party, whose leaders gambled that doing almost nothing with unified government for two years other than providing covering fire for their feral president was a winning strategy.
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Liu Qiuping, the veteran Xinjiang head coach who helped mold Zhou's game, is the same coach who, twenty years earlier, gambled his fledgling sideline career by bringing up a 17-year-old Yao up from the Shanghai Sharks youth team.
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Morrisons, with a smaller footprint in the more affluent areas of London and the south east of England than Tesco and Sainsbury's, may have gambled that it could cope better with the arrival of Amazon which would typically target those areas.
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If the markets are down when our children retire, the money gambled on Wall Street could leave them with less retirement money, reminding them that from 28500 to 6900, 2628(k) accounts of people near retirement dropped 28503 percent in value.
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Jay Mac Rust and Christopher Brenner allegedly gambled much of the $13.8 million in the accounts on securities derivatives, used some to repay earlier escrow clients who demanded refunds, and siphoned a combined $1.26 million to pay themselves and others.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank's British chief executive may have done much to rebuild bridges between Germany's biggest bank and its politicians, business leaders and general public, but John Cryan has gambled this goodwill in an effort to keep top bankers.
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The defendants "recklessly gambled with bank assets and lied to shareholders and government regulators, and through their actions drove a respected regional bank into the ground," Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department's criminal division said in a statement.
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They were also a stinging rebuke to former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who had gambled hundreds of millions of dollars on the idea — incorrect, as it turned out — that he could seize moderate voters from Mr. Biden.
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The Venezuelan political opposition and its many foreign supporters, the United States first among them, gambled that getting crucial humanitarian aid into the country would undermine military support for Nicolás Maduro and finally pry him out of the presidential palace.
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One target of the demonstrations has been the power wielded by Iran-backed militias in Iraq, and Kataib Hezbollah may have correctly gambled that provoking the United States into airstrikes inside Iraq would divert popular passions toward anti-American actions.
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Mr. Natanzon drank and gambled his way through the State University of New York at Buffalo (now known as the University at Buffalo) and graduated with a degree in accounting in 1991, though emerging jobless and penniless after losing sports wagers.
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The FTSE 100 gained 1 percent after Britons dealt the governing Conservative party a punishing blow, denying May the increased mandate she had gambled on and forcing her into an alliance with Northern Ireland's DUP party to command a majority in parliament.
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Since the election of Donald Trump last fall, a growing number of these refugees have made what once seemed like an improbable calculation: They have abandoned hope for this country and gambled on a risky crossing into one more welcoming to refugees.
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He gambled that his personal popularity and charisma would be sufficiently motivating for his supporters, and he was right Pollsters and professionals matter During the primaries Trump and his rookie campaign manager Corey Lewandowski competed against a murderer's row of established professionals.
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Both Flake and Heller gambled that their votes Tuesday could assuage their party's base -- and that, if the chaotic process the Senate is entering doesn't result in the passage of a major Obamacare repeal bill, the political impact next November would be muted.
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Here's a woman who ferried zoo animals on her beloved private plane, ran a baseball team, gambled prolifically, and gave money to the wife of the gunman who perpetrated a horrible crime at a McDonald's because she had compassion for the woman's kids.
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"Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it," said the man who had rescued his Conservative Party from the political wilderness, won two elections and successfully gambled that Scots would stay in the United Kingdom if given the choice.
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But Japanese badminton officials said on Thursday it would be hard to nominate Momota, who just recently rose to world number two, for a place at Rio after finding out that he and team mate Kenichi Tago had gambled at an illegal casino.
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" In the 1840s, tap moved to underground cellars around the Five Points area on the Lower East Side, "where people gambled, had liquor and danced," Mr. Seibert said, "and that's where a lot of the cultural mixing that produced tap dancing was happening.
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All I needed to do now was: I'd never gambled before, aside from the stupid friend bets you make on the bus, where money is just a useful punch line in pointing out how a football team is shit and can't win anything.
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For his entire political career, he has gambled that he can get working-class voters and young people, both groups that typically do not turn out in large numbers, to vote — and to vote for him, because his message speaks to them.
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Prime Minister Theresa May gambled on a quick election to strengthen her hand in negotiating the departure — and failed just as miserably, losing her Conservative majority in Parliament and leaving Britain in political disarray just days before the negotiations were due to open.
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But William G. Newchurch, the administrative law judge at the administrative hearings office, said that punishing Ms. Roland, 39, would be like taking action against someone who had gambled at a casino in Nevada and then returned to Texas, where gambling is illegal.
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Then again, in hindsight it's amazing that a mainstream, ad-supported basic cable network gambled at all on such a scalding concept, which skewered corporate greed and consumerism and posited that a shadowy cabal was behind everything, pulling the strings and profiting handsomely.
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With a supportive husband urging he to fight the Establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private king was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relieve the glories of his past.
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With a supportive husband urging her to fight the Establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past.
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Here are the possible scenarios as to what can be expected moving forwards: Matteo Renzi gambled his political future on the referendum outcome and promised to resign if the reforms were rejected and, in defeat, he is widely expected to fulfill this pledge on Monday.
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The Slovak, a giant of the road where he won the world title last year and claimed a fifth consecutive Tour de France points jersey last month, gambled on returning to his mountain bike passion, rather than race on the road on opening Saturday.
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But May, who gambled on a snap election last year that cost her party its majority in parliament, is facing pressure from multiple angles: pro-EU lawmakers, hardline Brexiteers, and another contingent who question her leadership credentials and criticise a "dull dull dull" domestic agenda.
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It was nurtured by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a billionaire who gambled an eye-popping $250 million in public money on it before it was fully defined — and later matched the amount with a $2800 million gift of his own money.
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The panel also concluded that the FAA and Boeing missed "multiple red flags and clear data points in recommending that the 737 MAX should continue to fly after the first crash in Indonesia in October 2018, adding those decisions "gambled with the publics safety.
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In June, she gambled on a snap election to strengthen her party's majority in the 650-seat parliament but instead bungled her campaign and ended up with a minority government propped up by the 10 votes of a small, pro-Brexit Northern Irish party.
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Had, 15 years earlier, the first generation of grime stars taken on quite so much sponsorship, they'd have been accused of becoming corporate shills, but Stormzy rightly gambled that today's fans see self-determination, rather than anti-commercialism as the biggest sign of authenticity.
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Although the court filing doesn't level accusations against DiCaprio (he's referred to as "Hollywood Actor 1" in the papers), it does claim that the actor gambled with Low in Vegas, and alleges that the embezzled funds were used to purchase artwork at auctions benefiting the actor's foundation.
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"With a supportive husband urging her to fight the establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past," it continued.
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As Mashable reported at the time, players could spend $2.50 to unlock a crate, emerge by chance with an exceedingly rare skin that could then be sold for a profit or gambled on a third-party site, resulting in an even bigger win or a total loss.
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In the wake of his death, a horrible thought occurred to me: Was it possible he had taken this most permanent action—one that traumatized his family—on something like a whim, the way he bought a new truck one Sunday, or gambled big at the casino?
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The ruling is a major defeat for the DOJ's antitrust division, which gambled on suing to block the deal more than a year ago, in what was the first government challenge to a vertical merger — a tie-up between companies that don't directly compete — in decades.
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Both are expected to spearhead a full-strength Atlético team in the Champions League final in Milan, a change from two years ago in Lisbon, when Simeone gambled unsuccessfully on an injured Costa, who had torn a hamstring in the season-ending league game against Barcelona.
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LILLE, France (Reuters) - France captain Yannick Noah gambled on an untested pair for the pivotal Davis Cup final doubles against Belgium on Saturday but Richard Gasquet and Pierre-Hugues Herbert's win ensured he was spared a "hot seat" as Les Bleus moved into the driving seat.
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My family probably looked like the Huxtables more than the Emersons — my parents were professionals, and I didn't know anybody who gambled, and yet I felt a deeper connection to the latter, whose shortcomings and trials were thorny and protracted the way real people's problems are.
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The ruling is a major defeat for the DOJ's antitrust division, which gambled on suing to block the deal more than a year ago, in what was the first government challenge to a vertical merger -- a tie-up between companies that don't directly compete -- in decades.
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While in Paris, Sally Hemings gambled that she could return to her family in Virginia, raise her children, see them go off into freedom, and live a life taking care of the rooms and wardrobe of the man who promised her he would make this life possible.
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In the late 1990s, two companies with deep pockets and marketing savvy, Sun Pacific and Paramount Citrus (now Wonderful Citrus), gambled big with huge mandarin plantings on the Maricopa Highway, 753 miles southwest of Bakersfield, where they were isolated from other citrus whose pollen could make the fruit seedy.
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Pence has gambled little of his own political capital on anything that would not benefit him in the long run — the only failure with which he has been associated has been his work to repeal ObamaCare, a political position any Republican aspiring to the White House must adopt.
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They should once again know that if their firm takes imprudent risks, chances are good that all the wealth they have accumulated over the years, in the form of salary and bonuses, would be forked over to the shareholders and creditors whose money they have gambled and lost.
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Casanova's autobiography, "The Story of My Life," provides granular insight into the 18th century's social manners over its 17663,700 handwritten pages: how high-living Europeans feasted and gambled, how they chose their clothes or styled their hair, how they maintained a veneer of piety while seducing one another.
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There's a shared reality that applies to first-generation college grads and/or immigrants and/or underserved communities: beyond the drag of imposterism, risk taking is also inhibited by socioeconomic Swords of Damocles, such as income that can't be gambled because it's earmarked for food, health, family or other essentials.
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Without a new message or a clear agenda for a second term, Mr. Trump's advisers are banking on the belief that the same basic playbook — Mr. Trump's preternatural ability to shock and entertain — will again animate his core voters and retain the swing voters who gambled on him in 2016.
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Around $200 billion a year is gambled on cricket worldwide, according to estimates by the Qatar-funded International Centre for Sport Security, with a sizable portion of it drifting down to lower-profile games, both in official and unofficial tournaments, that are broadcast to eager fans, sometimes over social media platforms.
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Here's what you need to know: • More on one of the greatest spy leaks in U.S. history: F.B.I. investigators gambled in 2013 that letting a C.I.A. officer suspected of spying for China slip out of the United States could help them piece together how Beijing decimated an American spy network.
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But the electoral result has transformed him into a masterful politician who boldly gambled and won his bet that the British people were fed up with "dithering politicians" and yearned to "get Brexit done," end Parliamentary chaos and see their country pointed in clearer and better directions under strong leadership.
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Notwithstanding an administration offer to fill approximately 2628 new district court seats and nine circuit court seats on an equal basis between the two parties, the Democratic-controlled Senate gambled that their party would win both the White House and the Senate and thus be able to fill all the new judgeships.
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CHICAGO, June 9 (Reuters) - Bets on U.S. lean hog futures hit a nearly two-year peak, CME Group data showed on Thursday, as investors gambled record-high pork prices in top consumer China will force the country to boost imports and as surging animal feed prices raise costs for U.S. hog producers.
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So while Trump's retreat to bland culture-war rhetoric is boring and predictable, the instant-replay debate he touched on is fascinating: a sentimental reverence for the art of sport, and the imperfection that allows, versus the materialism founded in the money being gambled that depends on the certainty of the results.
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Bright Lights skims across a lot of historical material that will be familiar to anyone who read Fisher's memoirs: the short, much-publicized marriage between Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, their even-more-publicized breakup when he left her for Elizabeth Taylor, Reynolds remarrying a shoe magnate who gambled away his fortune and hers.
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Now, with Israel's Memorial Day and Independence Day celebrations coming this week, and a stream of international singers arriving to compete in the Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv later this month, the Gaza militant groups may have gambled that Mr. Netanyahu would pay an even higher price for quiet in the short term.
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David Cameron's legacy will be this: entitled, managerial member of the ruling class who subjected his people to a series of brutal economic policies, gambled on his country's membership of the EU and lost, leading to years of uncertainty and the possible break up of the union between England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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MARCIA BARTUSIAK's "BLACK HOLE: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved" (Yale University Press, 2015) is a book about the contentious history of the idea of black holes and the heated debates about the supposedly illogical idea that an object in space could be so dense that nothing — even light — could escape.
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News Analysis SAN ANTONIO — If within the past few years you received a package, roamed a shopping mall, boarded a plane, train, ferry or cruise ship, went to a major sporting event, ran a marathon, attended a concert, gambled at a casino or visited a tourist attraction, chances are a dog made sure it was safe for you to do so.
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He successfully gambled on then-marginal neighborhoods, developing properties that served as a catalyst for further development: the Columbia condominium at Broadway and West 96th Street; Zeckendorf Towers on Union Square (when the park was still a haven for drug dealers); and Worldwide Plaza on four acres bounded by Eighth and Ninth Avenues and West 49th and 50th Streets (when the surrounding blocks were rife with peep shows and pornography).
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You now know that I've gambled myself into debt (poker), that on 1/2/20XX at 3:23 am I searched up "panties" on Amazon, and at 3:25 am "5 pack womens trimmed lace boy short panties" on Amazon, and that at others times I've searched up "Abu Ghraib" and "is infidelitous a word," and then that I went once and visited a site that offered up tips on taking better selfies and adoptasnake.com.
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President 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 in an early morning tweet on Tuesday mocked "Crazy Jim Acosta," saying even the correspondent from "Fake News CNN" agrees that Democrats "gambled and lost" over the government shutdown.
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Nonetheless, Boeing's reticence allowed a narrative to emerge: that the company had developed the system to elude regulators; that it was all about shortcuts and greed; that it had cynically gambled with the lives of the flying public; that the Lion Air pilots were overwhelmed by the failures of a hidden system they could not reasonably have been expected to resist; and that the design of the MCAS was unquestionably the cause of the accident.
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From David Cameron, who recklessly gambled his country's future on a referendum in order to isolate some whingers in his Conservative Party, to the opportunistic Boris Johnson, who jumped on the Brexit bandwagon to secure the prime ministerial chair once warmed by his role model Winston Churchill, and the top-hatted, theatrically retro Jacob Rees-Mogg, whose fund management company has set up an office within the European Union even as he vehemently scorns it, the British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.
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It is a harrowing, almost Dickensian story: When he was 5, his mother walked out on him and his brother (she was tired of being beaten by their violent father), and he grew up a "frozen child," used and humiliated by his scam-artist dad — a charming but treacherous man who "saw no paradox between being on the Wanted list for fraud and sporting a gray topper in the Owners' enclosure at Ascot," a man who obliviously gambled away his son's school tuition in Monte Carlo, did jail time around the world (Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Zurich) and later groused over his famous son's failure to give him a cut of his book royalties.
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