Some of these bets include civilization destroyed by mass suicide at 100 million to one odds, destruction by aliens at 500,000 to one odds, and worldwide floods at 100,000 to one odds. One man put a pound on 6,666,666 to one odds that the world would end at six p.m. on the sixth day of the sixth month of 1999. Another man bet at one million to one odds that the world would end on August 11, 1999 at 12:50 p.m. ... People bet on things like a completed first pass-attempt by John Elway, the jersey number of the first person to score, the team to score the longest touchdown, and the total number o...

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Tests scores are so important that if you don't get the minimum score for a certain college, they won't even lift a finger to consider you as an applicant. ... " (drdc.uchicago.edu) When teachers started feeling overwhelmed, it lead for them to enact in pedagogies that were sometimes at odds with their vision of best practice. ... " (valleycentral.com) It's not only the test itself that's expensive, if you want get around a perfect score; you have to pay roughly $4,000 for tutors and classes. ... Students are encouraged to take the test more than once, to get the ...

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The score is obtained by subtracting errors from total ceiling score. When PPVT-R standard scores are compared to PPVT IQS, WISC-R IQS, and Stanford-Binet IQS, the mean PPVT-R scores have been significantly lower. ... The modest coefficients of determination emerging from these correlations suggest limited shared variance; thus PPVT-R scores should not be interpreted as intelligence test scores. ... Casserly, the executive director of the Washington-based advocacy group for urban school systems, characterized the findings of the report, "Beating the Odds II," as encouraging, pointing to signif...

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Additional skills that a player can develop include self-discipline, patience, strategic and analytical thinking, being able to calculate mathematical odds, understanding psychology, observation of betting patterns and body language, and deception. ... The odds of hitting that number are 1 in 38 with a payout of 35-1. Regardless of the amount of experience a person has playing this game, the odds remain consistent throughout. ... Fantasy sport wagering is a contest where people compete for cash or prizes based on a scoring system that takes into account the accumulated statistics of professio...

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In fact, just prior to start of the 1980 Olympics, the Russians routed the American team by a score of 10-3 in an exhibition which likely contributed to our Soviet anxiety. ... Although Russia and the U.S. are now working towards solutions to the Iranian nuclear situation and removing chemical weapons from Syria, Russia has supported the Iranian and Syrian leaders who have often been at odds with the U.S. ...

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Today political critics in the USA call for more transparency within the government to fight corruption, yet America scores a 74 out of 100 on transparency.org's corruption perception index while Somalia scores an almost laughable 8 (last place) and The DRC scores only a 22 (8). ...

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It is a gratifying event when a hard working, deserving person beats the odds. ... She boasted a 3.8 grade point average and a high Law School Aptitude Test score. ... Four minorities, including one black and three Mexican Americans, were easily admitted with lower scores and ratings. ... This use of admissions is unfair to the other higher scoring students. ... UCLA School of Medicine accepted twenty-seven blacks while admitting no whites or Asians with GPA's of 3.24 or below and Medical College Admissions Test scores of 93.4 and below. ...

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It is estimated that the odds of divorce occurring in a household before children are grown up is 50:50. ... While females traditionally outscore males on standardized tests of verbal skills and males outperform females on mathematical skills, males who have experienced family disruption generally score higher on verbal aptitude. ... (Demo & Acock, 1988, p. 622) Fourth graders whose families were recently disrupted, children whose parents divorced since the children entered school, had lower scores on language skills and a composite measure of academic achievement than children in never-disrup...

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The conditions in the Ingush camps have driven scores of Chechens back into the breakaway republic of Chechnya, where their fates are far from secure." ... The names of the groups fighting have changed repeatedly but they have always been at odds. ...

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