Sentences with phrase «betting against progress»

Not exact matches

Well as the week progressed, so did Brees» health, and now I'm stuck with a betting slip on Jacksonville to go into the Superdome, and not only win, but cover a damn spread against Sean Payton.

I've already bet Egypt to progress from the group stage at plus - money, and he could rack up goals against Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.