Liberalising gambling would fit well with Mr Abe's radical reforms to boost Japan's sluggish growth.
Britain might emerge from this great gamble fit and ready for the new age of mass politics, or it might sink completely as home grown barbarians overran all that was civilised and rational in public life.
Schumacher's misfortune moved Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne into an impressive seventh, but he lost out with a late gamble to fit intermediate tyres.
Both airlines fly to gambling's galactic HQ, Las Vegas, but a US law known as the Gorton Amendment prohibits "any gambling device" to be fitted to jets using American airspace.
He explains that there is a "spectrum" of gambling that no longer fits into the previous class-based boundaries of Ascot on one side and a high street bookies on the other: "To the left there's a casino, or placing a bet in a shop; you and your behaviour are visible to people.
I don't think it's too big a gamble in that it fits the concept of what, to me, makes a great film: the artists, the characters, the story, the plot, the ideas.' The reaction so far has been mixed.
Wolves boss Dean Saunders responded by making a double substitution on the hour, gambling on Bakary Sako, supposedly fit again after a hamstring injury that had looked to have ruled him out for the season, and Dicko.
(What surely helps is that Bahais abstain from aggressive proselytizing, teach a personal morality whose standards -- no gambling or alcohol, for instance -- fit well in a culturally conservative area and regard Christianity as a divinely revealed faith. The station also runs free announcements about local churches' events on its community calendar).
It certainly fits in with the gamble that Nokia is taking on Windows, although there isn't much to show for it so far.
"The pattern fits the syndrome known as grief gambling".
