Am now trying to figure out whether to gamble on my evening flight tomorrow or take the only ferry feasible tomorrow at 7.15am (groan).
When Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly return from Australia at the end of the second series of I'm a Celebrity, they will have to decide whether to gamble on making their names afresh on a new continent.
Meanwhile, the Mets must debate whether to gamble that Burnitz, who is to earn $11.5 million next season, will revert to the player who averaged 33 homers and 102 R.B.I. for the previous five seasons.
In turn, that would leave the BBC with the dilemma of whether to gamble on England reaching the quarter-finals or opting for coverage of a potential second-round clash against one of Colombia, Greece, the Ivory Coast or Japan.
Each prediction was accompanied by a subjective probability estimate reflecting the subjects' confidence in its accuracy--a measure validated in Study 5 by having subjects choose whether to "gamble" on the accuracy of their prediction or on the outcome of a simple aleatory event.
They don't have to decide whether to gamble on a new architecture, with an unknown set of problems, in order to use the new product," he told me.
Clearly, the museum is willing to gamble on that one, but whether such a return is possible is an open question.
While there have been Broadway composers with "powerful jazz affinities," as Mr. Henderson noted, from Harold Arlen through Jule Styne and Leonard Bernstein to Cy Coleman, Broadway producers have been hesitant to gamble on genuine jazz artists, whether out of philistine conservatism or outright racism.
So on draft day, it falls on the NBA GM's who must gamble whether a high school post-grad has the skills necessary to immediately compete in the league or whether that youngster's raw physical talent will quickly mature into professional material.
Of particular interest to the league is whether Vick admits to gambling in a plea agreement.
