31.   The firm made bad bets in the markets for fuel oil, crude oil and silver contracts, traders familiar with the company said.

32.   The Hong Kong native watched the decade-old firm collapse because of bad bets made by its bond department.

33.   The frog story is only one of many signs that Blackthorne is a bad bet and that his traumatic childhood can be held accountable.

34.   The mistakes of the past were blamed largely on former Magellan manager Jeff Vinik, who loaded up on bonds, in what proved to be a bad bet.

35.   The Patriots are a bad bet tomorrow, and I say that while cautioning you that the following opinions are for recreational purposes only.

36.   The short-term bond fund category has been tarnished this year as a dozen funds suffered big losses because of bad bets on risky mortgage derivatives.

37.   They said there were bad bets, but no dismissal.

38.   Those who make a bad bet on such companies are worthy of sympathy.

39.   While the airlines envision a large new income from in-flight gaming, Gamblers Anonymous envisions a large new recruitment drive for victims of bad bets aloft.

40.   With a series of bad technical bets, Lucent ceded narrow but vital swaths of the optical landscape to its archrival, the Nortel Networks Corp. of Canada.