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But North Korea's betting with its strongest hand failed to spur its negotiations with North Korea, but instead worsened the crisis situation on the Korean peninsula.

This season of American Idol is already the most watched and should be interesting to say the least. In keeping with previous years, there's sure to be controversy, heartbreak and triumph, all of the ingredients that give Idol the massive following it continues to enjoy. Everyone bets, but viewer voting can make the outcome so difficult to predict and is what makes betting so much fun.

The Opera folks are betting their browser has reached a threshold of popularity where they can unshackle it from the fees. This clearly is a volume play that could pay off if enough people use the browser. Opera would be able to drive revenue through affiliate relationships, for example.

There is so much more information out there on all the Web sites with statistics, against-the-spread info, totals ... people are becoming much more educated about what's a good bet. You have people betting (on lower-seeded teams) against teams seeded four, five or six, which gives (the books) balanced action on so many of these games.

We had to add this line (category) to the betting to give punters a fair go.

We knew it. If I was a betting man, 99.9 percent of the odds would be against two Louisville schools in the final. I don't care if we had NBA Today out there playing for us.

You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

With less than 2.0 million barrels of spare production capacity, even with higher-than-average supply of oil, the margin of error in the world oil market has never been thinner. And with worries about possible supply disruptions in Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela and another hurricane season ahead of us, traders are betting that it's likely something is going to go wrong.

Bettors looking to cash in on their NFL betting intuition have only a few days left to bet on the outcome of Sunday's Super Bowl. To round out the betting experience for our players, Bodog.com has been offering a wide variety of quality and unique proposition wagers for the Super Bowl.

Betting on sports is actually a lot more like playing the stock market than it is the other games at the casino. Because in the end, what dictates whether you win at sports is skill.

Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.

Betting against the U.S. consumer is always a losing bet.

Even just a month ago, prior to the release of the March payrolls number, there were some investors betting that rates wouldn't rise until early next year. Now, after two months of higher payrolls, it seems likely rates are set to rise, and so there's a certain throwing in of the towel for some investors.

At the end of the day, they are really betting on the management team's ability to execute the business plan.

Doyle's an intense character. Doyle's trying to atone for his own past and he has to help Angel-but he doesn't want to become too involved. On one hand, here he is preaching to Angel to get involved with humans and really care about them, but meanwhile Doyle would rather be at the track betting the ponies and drinking.

Earnings have been fine, but they just haven't been as robust as people were hoping. The guidance for the third and fourth quarters hasn't been that strong, and part of the rally was based on people betting that the second half of the year would be good, so with the numbers not saying that, you're seeing some selling.

Early elections are still a possibility. Some people are betting on an agreement being reached between parties but until that happens the market is in wait-and-see mode.

There's lots of speculators betting that we're going to break the 8 yuan per dollar level soon. The authorities are very averse to speculators trying to make money, so they're making it hard for them.

The time to reconsider the value of five-year notes arrived. I am thinking about buying five-year notes as their yields rose too much. A trade betting on flattening is about to lose its charm.

I've won hundreds at the track, but I'm not betting on the afterlife.

It was the only show that focused on sports betting, and it was a pretty brave move because no one had put sports betting out for mass audiences before. It was kind of frowned upon. But it paid off for the exposure.

The series will involve me flying all over the world and betting on everything imaginable.

The series of U.K. partnerships we are announcing today will enable Ladbroke's, the world's leading betting group, to reach a far wider and more affluent audience,

The stock market may be uncertain about the economy, but venture capitalists aren't. They're betting on the future.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

The sellers are doing just fine because the money is in their pockets, but at the end of the day, the buyers are betting on the future, and there is no way to know how they will make out.

Technology shares are among the most undervalued. Investors who are betting on a year-end rally are probably going to favor the sector.

Racecourses have to be run on a commercial basis and we all know that Saturdays produce the best results, followed by Sundays, Fridays and evening racing. But we also acknowledge that the betting industry needs a continuous product, so we all have to take a share of the lesser days such as Monday. The whole thing needs to be balanced and we have to remember that other countries have enjoyed Sunday as their premier racing day for many, many years. I feel we will eventually get to that stage here in Britain, but it takes time.

Private-equity firms like strong cash flow and you have that in a betting operation. I think they want to get in there before a possible IPO.

The one assurance I've been able to give him is that we have seen absolutely no evidence and we have absolutely no other information to suggest there was betting on hockey or that the integrity of the game was compromised in any way.

Some people are betting that the sell-off was overdone.

Companies in Japan still have potential to boost their profits and investors are betting on the strength of the economy.

Anybody who likes to play poker, if you want to find a good poker game, you're going to go play. It's not anything where I'm betting the house, like $100,000. You go, kick back, have fun, talk to some of the fans, enjoy it.

And that's the main buzz with betting games like this. Every weekend, whether I bet or not, I go through lists and try to pick winners in my own life so come Monday, if I did well, I can go 'told ya' and if I didn't do well I can blame it on something else." ()

This isn't just rolling the dice - it's betting the whole house.

The White House is drawing attention to this election, betting that it will be successful and it can point to this as another benchmark in the transition to fuller Iraqi sovereignty.

This is a major restructuring. The people inside of Ford basically believe they are betting their company on this restructuring.

A lot of dedicated Latin American investors put money in Mexico betting on its safe-haven status. As things looked like they were heading for a full-blown crisis in Argentina, many took some profits in Mexico to raise cash.

A lot of people have been betting on the euro to gain this year and if they keep getting disappointed, there's a risk they'll abandon that bet.

Almost always he bet on the Reds, but some nights he wouldn't because he didn't like the pitcher. He didn't like Mario Soto and some nights he wouldn't bet when Soto was pitching. So then the bookie knows, 'Well, Rose is not betting tonight.' You can imagine how quickly that traveled.

They have a right to be disappointed in me and the way we've played, but I'm betting that our fans when we line up against the Jets are going to be rocking and rolling. We better give them something to be upbeat about. If we can deliver, I think we'll be off and running.

You don't try a double steal very often, but we tried it tonight and it worked. When you run a double steal, you're betting on them throwing through. When they don't, it makes you look awfully foolish.

You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

This movement in the bond market is amazing, truly unprecedented. People are starting to sell fixed-income and put that money into stocks. Equity is starting to look like this undervalued dark horse worth betting on.

There's a constant search for the perfect memory chip - one that retains data after the power is switched off, consumes less power, with very fast processing speeds. Samsung will probably be betting on that in the future,

There's a constant search for the perfect memory chip -- one that retains data after the power is switched off, consumes less power, with very fast processing speeds. Samsung will probably be betting on that in the future,

There may come a time when the lion and the lamb will lie down together, but I am still betting on the lion

This market just keeps going and going and people are betting on even further gains. Strength in economic fundamentals is the biggest incentive.

This is the only rating that should matter to her because people are voting with their money, by betting that the peso will continue to climb because she would pursue her economic reforms.

This is the most-watched awards show on television. Anything can happen on live TV and we're betting on it!

This is why Nine.com is known as an innovator in the gaming industry. We give our clients numerous betting options that most of our competitors could never offer.

They're betting on a change in the technology within voice communications,

There's a much higher level of urgency. I think they realize that they're betting the company on this. Our sense is this is being viewed as this is a change-or-die kind of thing.

As more consumers realize the safety and convenience online sports books provide, the Internet will continue to be the destination of choice for betting on major sporting events like the NCAA tournament.

A betting man would say that 2005 will end up being the peak of the cycle.

It's a wolf. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on it.

It's a good niche between seasons, now that football is over and baseball hasn't started. Betting on arena football is slowly catching on.

It's an international problem, it's not just the NHL. There is a lot of betting where there is an influence on sports results. There have been issues on betting on football (soccer), there have been issues of betting in tennis, there might be issues in other sports.

Ford postponing the event would be their judgment that market conditions are becoming disorderly. (Ford is) betting that conditions will improve once upcoming uncertainties are out of the way, one of which is the FOMC meeting.

It's time to take off bets on the curve flattening, it's been a great run. Some investors had been betting on up to two rate increases this year but the central bank isn't likely to go past one.

It's the rationale of not putting all of your eggs in one basket, for not betting that (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan can save the economy.

It's getting bigger. I've had so many people ask me about it. I don't know if it'll ever be as big as a big-city anime con, but this year we've had companies contact us to be sponsors who we didn't even contact ourselves first. I'm betting it grows.

It's becoming increasingly clear that Sun is betting its business on Niagara, but as they attempt to buy time and momentum with an early product release, a number of challenges remain. Sun is pushing chip multi threading (CMT), which IBM's Power chips have had for some time. It's unclear why a customer would go with Sun's new processor platform when IBM has proven CMT technology and industry-standard benchmarks that continue to demonstrate the superior performance and speed of POWER.

It's probably outstripped sports betting as the most popular area,

The next England Manager betting has been very quiet in the last few days, as punters waited for a possible announcement from Newcastle but whatever way you look at it, it's clear that O'Neill is top of everyone's shopping list.

Everybody bets on March Madness. It's one of the biggest betting events of the year, but more and more people are starting to bet on the conference tournaments. There is just so much on the line in these tournaments and the passion runs deep - it's a great lead-in to March Madness.

Everyone is waiting for the war on the belief that once it starts, stocks are going to shoot up, but there's a danger in betting with everyone else.

Everyone in the world is picking Reese Witherspoon but me. I'm betting on the last-movie-seen theory. When there are upsets at the Oscars, they tend to be obscure movies that were probably the last DVD screener on the Academy's stack.

The betting world thinks that we've got the best bloke in the game but that we're going to lose him to our old enemies as soon as we get home from Germany.

The betting trends have been public and sharp money coming in on the favorites all week.

The attorney general's concerns about the need to ensure integrity in gambling are not limited to casino gambling. However, she has not been presented with any issue regarding off-track betting in Rosemont and therefore is not in a position to comment further.

It's timely and silences those who were betting Syria would not allow the interrogation of any Syrian,

They were betting New England like the other team wasn't even going to show up.

They have outperformed expectations, despite a really bad sports betting margin, and that highlights the benefits of a diversified model.

There was an application from Waterhouse's solicitors to have the matter heard in camera on the grounds some of the information was sensitive in respect to betting transactions between parties.

The retail sales figures clearly prove that betting against the consumer is a sucker's bet. Not surprisingly, the ex-auto figure on retail sales tears down the argument that consumers are only buying cars and houses.

The NCAA basketball season is really heating up and with conference play in full swing fan and betting interest is really picking up. I'm sure these odds will continue to change throughout the season, but there are already some surprises. For fans who bet on Florida at 100-1 or Memphis at 50-1 earlier this year, there could be a huge payout come April 3.

That's different. We go where we go (for All-Star Weekend) with the assurance that there will be no betting on our events.

The Lakers are a public team, like the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. They get a lot more people betting on them. Even if a team like that should be at 20:1, we might go 15:1 because we know we're going to get more play on them.

The integrity of the game is obviously very important. And betting on hockey is obviously something we don't want. Until you know all the facts, you don't know how it's going to affect the game or put a black mark on it.

I'm not betting anybody's money on the Super Bowl, including my own.

I'm a gambler, and now I'm betting on Texas,

Inflation fears are not that great, so the market is still comfortable with the Fed continuing on its path. Investors are betting on more of a flattening of the curve.

In general, tech companies are focused on betting the company on the next generation. They need every dime they can get.

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

I'm not a betting man, but if I was, I'd offer anyone who wants to, they take the favorite and I'd take the rest of the field. I think if you look back on it, you'd see the favorite seldom wins.

If I were betting on it, I'd say he could probably pull it off.

If I were a betting person, I'd bet all that signals this will be his last term.

If I were a betting man, I'd bet radio would work before light. But we've done that for 20 years, and we haven't explored much with light.

If I were a betting man, and I'm not, I would say he finishes his career there.

If I were a betting man, and I hate to bet on people's lives, I'd say that it is more likely that they'll come back with the death penalty. Having said that, I hope that the jurors will weigh the evidence very carefully and guard against being swayed by emotions.

I'm betting between the two of them, they've probably broken a ton of face masks. Their own and those of a bunch of defensive guys.

If you can keep those concepts of play and competition, the behaviors are somewhat addictive. You can be addicted to fantasy sports just like you can be addicted to on-line betting - and I think there are probably several people out there who are like that.

If you are a betting man, the show will go on, really and truly,

If you're betting your own money, you bet on Perry (to win re-election). But he can be beaten because there are reservations about him that run deep.

Interest in March Madness is much higher than other sporting events, especially by office workers who have betting pools everywhere.

In this case, you are kind of betting on what the Academy is doing, what Hollywood is thinking, what trends it is thinking about ... I don't know if you can guess at those.

I haven't heard anything about the betting being on hockey, and that's a very important distinction. It sounds as if it's college football and Super Bowl betting, stuff like that.

I probably would rather have not seen it. I'm sure that it helped a little bit, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet it drew attention to it and could possibly make it worse.

I played with Tiger and Vijay in the Mercedes. I said to my brother and my wife, 'Tiger's playing unbelievable. Vijay is putting unbelievable.' A betting man would back Tiger, the way he's playing.