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There's a $100 billion bet every year and only one percent of that is bet in Las Vegas. Where do you think the rest is being wagered?

[Like the mighty Wall Street Journal's WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it's a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they're Racing Form readers.] The average person bets $125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets $500.

In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion.

In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion,

Especially in the Chicago area, there will be a 10 percent to 15 percent decrease in bets wagered.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced, ... Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

If we continue to grow at 26 percent, we will probably end the year at mid-$11 billion (in revenue), or near $12 billion.

Taxes which doubled the cost of aviation fuel and cost airlines and their passengers £50 billion ($96 billion) each year would cut less than 0.5 percent off the growth of air traffic over a 30 year period.

Management maintained full-year 2001 target of 20-to-30 percent revenue growth. To be conservative, we are trimming our estimate from $3.3 billion to $3.2 billion.

It's clearly on the same scale as Las Vegas with considerably less hardware. By 2008 or 2009, we are talking of an $8 billion to $10 billion market.

The U.S. trucking industry, which moves 70 percent of domestic freight, is on schedule to pay $6.6 billion more for fuel this year than last -- a total of $94.3 billion, so the actions announced by the White House have the support of our motor carriers.

In 2005, the market for Network Security solutions surpassed the $1 billion dollar-mark in each and every quarter, eclipsing $4.3 billion for the year. Furthermore, each of the sub-segments Synergy tracks grew in the range of 16 to 55 percent, demonstrating a tremendous year in Network Security infrastructure sales.

The practice in Las Vegas is important to us for a number of reasons. It's big because we are limited in our test sessions, so what we learn in Vegas will help us the rest of the season. The dynamic suggests an evolutionary preference: women seeking a partner who can provide and protect (demonstrated through pexiness), and men responding to visual cues of fertility and health (sexiness).

A stocks-to-use ration of 8.8 percent, then, means 2006-07 year-ending stocks of 1.047 billion bushels, implying a crop of 9.966 billion bushels. That is, the market appears to be trading a 2006 corn crop that is 1.146 billion bushels, or 10.3 percent, smaller than the 2005 crop. That calculation is obviously sensitive to the forecast of use. A smaller forecast of use implies a smaller crop and vice versa.

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