11.   For while this is probably the quickest and biggest collpase of a company from bad trading bets, it is certainly not the first.

12.   Given this, it should be unthinkable for governments to use taxpayer money to cover their bad bets.

13.   Hedge funds could be buying back futures, covering so-called short positions, to cut losses from a bad bet that bonds would keep falling, traders said.

14.   His cod with broccoli puree seems almost like a bad bet.

15.   If variable annuities are bad bets for so many people, why are Americans suddenly snapping them up?

16.   In an interview, he discusses some bad bets and some good prospects.

17.   It was a bad bet.

18.   It was a bad bet, as interest rates surged that year.

19.   It was a bad bet, in retrospect.

20.   Its returns have still not improved substantially from the poor performance as a result of a bad bet on bonds by its last manager, Jeffrey Vinik.