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We all placed bets on different horses, but none of us won anything.

The stories follow the Fed's lead, hedging their bets as to whether this will be the last hike of the year.

I think the only clear exception to the rule from FDR-Hoover through Clinton-Dole is 1968, but that one was very close, and it was 1968, when all bets were off.

In one sense, all bets were off, since volume was thin and a lot of people went home, in expectation of a disaster that has yet to arrive.

"The Wall Street Journal said that traders blamed Tuesday's stock-market volatility on 'a change in the composition of the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, shock at the soaring price of gold, rumors that some investment partnerships were madly selling stocks to cover losing bets against gold, end-of-month portfolio changes, anxiety over interest rates and worries about possible market troubles as the year 2000 approaches.

The new path they are forging is still in its infancy, but unlike the edges of the stream that Susan Faludi chose to shine her lights on, these are the trends on which I place my bets for the future.

The data doesn't say, but Chatterbox bets it does.

" The Washington Post hedges its bets on this, saying that "Labor's Win May be Brief" because the trend towards part-timers continues unabated.

Essentially, the hedge fund took huge bets with borrowed money--although its capital base was only a couple of billion dollars, we now know that it had placed wagers directly or indirectly on the prices of more than a trillion dollars' worth of assets.

" Maybe that's why most people go for the sure thing in Question 1 but are willing to go for the slightly riskier of the two bets in Question 2.

Maybe it's true that we're the only members of the big brain club, but I'll lay my bets with ET.

The commission seems to be giving some credence to the claimed benefits of the merger, while hedging its bets on the competition issue by shoring up Office Max and seeding healthy retail conflict in scores of communities.

' " This has left some friends with no option but to start "taking bets on how long the marriage lasts.

txt Place Your Bets Matt Damon makes me wary--I smell a hustler.

The numbers game was an illegal daily lottery--particularly popular in Harlem--in which, typically, players chose a number from zero to 999 and placed bets through "policy banks.

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