The starting price, ie odds offered by a bookmaker on a race just before it starts
By applying these laws, you will significantly increase your odds of business success.
British and Spanish households have adjusted even less, so the odds of prolonged weakness in private spending are even greater.
Last week Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics had put the odds of the August 1 solar flare producing auroras at about 50-50.
No, but that didn't stop William Hill offering 7/2 odds on him contracting malaria, making him the favourite celeb to be the next to catch this fashionable, often fatal, disease.
The odds are five to one on that horse.
These are not good odds. And I'm the sole breadwinner.
The bookies were offering odds of 3 to 1, but there were no takers.
Ladurie plumbs these transcripts and discovers an old world stubbornly at odds with the new world slowly being born.
The purpose of camouflage is to reduce the odds that someone will notice you as you try to blend into an environment.
While odds are you'll never be an astronaut or be able to pay the astronomical costs of private space flight, you'll at least be able to send your name rocketing into the ether.
For example, it makes the odds of your own consciousness existing the same as the odds of you being born at all, which is to say, very small.
Maintaining a positive attitude and taking time for introspection will increase your odds of long-term health.
While there are scientists who think RNA could have arisen spontaneously on early Earth, others say the odds of such a thing happening are astronomical.
How can you improve your odds of success?
The odds favour a continuation of decent job growth, though not as briskly as in October.
Mint seems to relax the muscle that keeps the valve at the top of the stomach clamped down, increasing the odds of reflux.
It makes no odds because the gradient's still the same.
This behavior improves the odds of successful recovery in case of damage from an accident or a bad sector.
And even if they do grab one vine, the odds of them swinging to catch another and another and another are slim; all those Spaces between the vines could spell disaster.
What's striking about this recent flurry of activity is how at odds it is with current investor sentiment in the u.
Computer modelling by the Met Office, though, gives odds-on chances of the lull being broken.
The horse was running at odds of ten to one.
What is being promised is a set of scientific lessons and laws that can dramatically increase your odds of success.
Against all odds, people find it in themselves to rise up, stare down the guns and grasp freedom from their oppressors. It happened in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Yemen.
Hamas and the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have been at odds since an agreement to form a unity government reached in Mecca in February 2006 fell apart.
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