"It was a gamble the first time around," said Ms. Cargill of the early efforts to set up black-controlled companies quickly in a country that lacks significant black capital.
In a phone interview, Mr. Lecinski explained that the title is a play on a phrase that is beloved by Procter & Gamble, "the first moment of truth," which refers to the few seconds that a shopper looks at, and considers buying, a product on a store shelf.
(Dubious thinking has it that only those Singaporeans who can afford to gamble in the first place will be willing to pay the entrance fee).
Again, the claim that differential option luck is bad is consistent with the view that, given that people do choose to gamble, it is better, all things considered, if differential option luck is not eliminated, even if it would be better, justice-wise, if people had chosen not to gamble in the first place (Lippert-Rasmussen 2001, 576; compare Cohen 2011, 124 143; Persson 2006).
But now Pixar is gambling for the first time on a film anchored by humans.
Another woman, from Kingston, south-west London, has gambled for the first time by staking £10,000 on leave, according to William Hill.
In practice, waterfall-style software projects are virtually never run this way; time and budget constraints always leave participants gambling that the first draft will work well enough, and that anything that goes wrong can be fixed on the fly.
William Hill said one woman in central London placed her first ever bet by putting £100,000 on the UK voting to stay, while another woman, from Kingston, south-west London, gambled for the first time by staking £10,000 on leave.
There are maybe ten people gambling on the first floor.
Built in 1947, the hotel, an Art Deco high-rise, ushered in the modern era of gambling, the first hotel in the nation built to house a casino and live entertainment under one roof.
Although transfers from subsidised or smaller theatres to the West End obviously involve financial risk, producers gamble that the first run has proved the demand for a particular show or star and that reviews or word of mouth from the original can be used to draw other punters in.
