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...Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 348 The other chances are also designated on the green cloth.., 'le pair, le passe, et le noir'. 1928 M. CAROL How to play Roulette ii. 21 Among other divisions, or spaces for the stakes, you will find Passe, Pair, Manque, Impair, Noir, Rouge. 1939 T. KING Twenty-one Games to play for Money 31 Even chances are given when a stake is placed on:.. Noir, meaning any black number that turns up. 1964 A. WYKES Gambling ix. 215 The European betting table is divided into six areas labelled pair, impair, passe, manque, rouge...
...believable? Even Peter Storck, head analyst for online advertising at Jupiter Communications -- whose own prediction last June of $940 million was amazingly prescient -- is skeptical. "Don't forget that the IAB's mission is to promote online advertising," he points out. "The reporting members have a stake in making online advertising look like it's growing fast...
Chen characterizes the inhabitants as "young punk skaters in front of Hubba Hubba," but what is really at stake are stores like the Golden Doughnut, Surmans, the Greek Market, the Ethiopian Restaurant and Lucy Parsons Bookstore. These are elements of Cambridge which serve as the cornerstone to a diverse community of real people, not just the "young punks...
...refusal to continue the conflict and a fierce determination to live a normal life. Today political stability--though not much democracy--has been achieved through the government's policy of "no victor, no vanquished." Four years ago, Renamo elected impressive numbers to the national assembly; now it has a stake in running the country, and hostilities find voice mainly as parliamentary debate. Frelimo jettisoned its socialist economic credo by 1989 and decided not only to adopt market-based capitalism but to take the bitter IMF-ordered medicine required for international investment...
...Here's the reasoning: Microsoft is so much bigger, and can throw so many programmers at any problem, that Netscape's only chance is to harness the talents of the thousands of hackers on the Net who might be willing to improve on the program if they had a stake in it. "I wouldn't characterize the plan as a hail-Mary pass," says Zawinski, which is exactly how I did characterize it. But, he concedes, it does have an element of "I've got this box of old clothes! We can use my grandpa's barn!" In any event...