Editor J. Mac McClellan writes in the May 2000 issue: "I'm in a perfect position to judge the odds of success for the Eclipse, having watched so many "paper" airplanes and airplane companies come and go, with near-zero success, in my 24 years as an aviation magazine editor.
With disdain and wit, Miller recognized that as long as his natural enemies — current and former baseball executives — were judging him, the odds of his election were slim.
Mr Jennings of FICO, for instance, says he is working on ways to relate customers' credit scores to the macroeconomic environment so that lenders can judge how the odds of default change when, say, unemployment goes up or down.But for the reasons explained earlier in this report, property exerts a siren-like attraction for banks.
To give the "coincidence" some perspective, with roughly forty-five SDNY judges, the odds that this particular judge randomly got assigned all three of these cases was about one in 91,000.
Moreover, a more recent study showed that N-ERC/mesothelin as measured by our previous 7 16 ELISA was a better predictor of mesothelioma than C-ERC/mesothelin as assessed by Mesomark™ judging from odds ratios and ROC curves 23.
Judging by circulation figures, the odds this time are just as steep: The Examiner sells an average of 107,100 copies daily, less than one-quarter of The Chronicle's 457,000.
Judging by his past performances, the odds are almost nine to one that he s right.
In the end, the judges agree that, against the odds, the whisky-chocolate-smoked-salmon nigiri made by Wojciech Popow is the best single piece in the London round – but he is not going to the final in Tokyo.
This two year delay in implementation of primary percutaneous coronary intervention in the UK seems to have had adverse consequences, judging by the favourable 30 day odds of mortality for patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction receiving treatment in high use compared with low use hospitals.
Remember, he didn't create Pop Idol or American Idol: he was hired as a judge on them, and against the odds proved a magnetic TV presence.
