But a combination of administrative foul-ups and the officials' arrogance gave the Soviets two bonus chances to win, and on the second one, Aleksandr Belov scored the winning basket.
For example, if your mother keeps telling you that your jelly belly makes you more cuddly as she pulls another batch of cookies out of the oven, or your employees continually fawn over your brilliance as they line up for their bonuses, chances are, you're not going to get thinner or become a better leader.
If no one gets five balls and the bonus, the chance of the jackpot is 1 in 144,000, which is the chance of five balls.
The Challenge, for me, is just a nice bonus, a chance to get out there in the great outdoors with some quality people, who have the same passion as me for that sort of stuff.
The included remote control is an added bonus because chances are when you're necking with a Tri-Delta a song you may be embarrassed about will come on.
And they get a cultural bonus: a rare chance to spend an hour with a cross-section of America.
For ambassadors and their spouses, particularly those living on civil servants' salaries, the bonus is a chance to play out fantasies of becoming art collectors.
Bonus for the chance that she could accept an Academy Award, quote Maya Angelou and call the Oscars "bulls--t".
Embarrassingly, the retiring head of the supervisory board and a member of the committee, Joachim Funk, was voted a bonus too.The chances are that the trial will be shelved at some stage for lack of evidence of serious criminal intent, say lawyers unconnected with the case.
Rejections, of course, would count against Lawson's acceptance rate, which would affect his eligibility for a weekly bonus and his chances of getting priority block scheduling.
