Word: bet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone from drivers to drinkers was victimized, the Chicken Little pessimists, who had bet on bullion and other precious metals, were made to look prescient. Among the winners were people who had shrewdly put away dimes, quarters and half dollars minted before 1965; at year's end an original $1,000 in those almost pure silver coins was worth $16,300. But anybody who had put his money in a savings bank was a sucker; a $1,000 deposit declined in real value during the year to about $900, after inflation and taxes on the interest receipts...
...people bet on who's ahead, who's future is in doubt...
...style is brisk and hortatory. Porter warns her readers: "If you need a spring rain coat, don't stop off at the section reserved for bathing suits and buy a bikini at top price. I've done this sort of thing plenty of times, and I bet you have...
Lundberg, who must be rated an even bet to earn a position on the United States Olympic team next summer, shattered the school 200-yd. breaststroke record in only his second collegiate attempt at that distance...
Venturesome companies bet big on "the rock that burns