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Big business has wagered hundreds of billions of dollars on the development of high-tech, low-cost media technology--broadband services, satellites, encryption technology, miniaturized computers and communications devices, you name it--that is largely impervious to the Bennetts and Gores of this world.
Commentators wagered that the racial division reflected in the two Simpson verdicts would overwhelm Clinton's noble words to the contrary.
Clinton wagered, as he put it a week ago, "that we could raise the price to a point where it would no longer make any sense for [Milosevic] to go on, and where he could no longer maintain his position if he did."
Ehrlich's theories lost steam after he lost a famous 1980 bet with economist Julian Simon, who wagered that any basket of resources Ehrlich might name would be cheaper at any date in the future.
The lotteries' pitiful payout--about half of all money wagered, compared with 92 percent or so at your average casino--rightly draws cries of outrage.