1.   And Banc One, the huge regional banking chain, said earnings were off because of bad bets on interest rates over the last two years.

2.   A bad bet on the direction of the yen also hurt profits, said Kenwood spokesman Yoichi Kato.

3.   A bad bet on Electronic Data Systems cost him his entire bonus one year.

4.   But its bad bets overwhelmed its good ones, and the heavy leverage proved deadly.

5.   But some recent academic research has suggested that imprudent loans, rather than bad bets on stocks, caused the widespread bank failures of the Depression.

6.   But the company today is trying to rebound from a bad bet.

7.   Capital Corporate Federal Credit Union, the latest victim of a bad bet in derivatives, has been seized by federal credit union regulators.

8.   Even John Krimsky, the deputy secretary general of the USOC, thinks an American city would be a bad bet.

9.   Even when they succeed they allow foreign governments to get away with bad policy making and investors to get away with bad bets, he said.

10.   Gallinger was a gambler, and, as all gamblers learn, bad bets are made from time to time.