Besides, wanting to come out a winner by a nose, a few percentage points or a few bucks is human nature.
Questions abound about I'll Have Another (12-1), who beat Creative Cause only by a nose in the Santa Anita Derby.
The last time he tried was in 1989, when Kentucky Derby runner-up Easy Goer lost to Sunday Silence by a nose.
Orb was only McGaughey's third Preakness starter, and first since 1989 when Easy Goer, also a 3-5 favorite, lost by a nose to Sunday Silence.
The pair fought out a tremendous finish up the straight that appeared to be Dettori's for the taking but Perfect Stride dug deep to take it by a nose.
There is nothing more important right this minute (besides health, which wins by a nose in many cases) than making sure you don't end up paying for mistakes that cause your bank to close its doors.
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Vegas has the Yankees favored by a nose over the Rays to win the American League pennant this year, but if the Yanks get knocked out early ratings will fall off a cliff as there is no other team to pick up the slack.
In a building designed by Gustave Eiffel, a Molinard "nose" (perfume maker) helps visitors create their own distinctive fragrance.
In December, he was rushed to the hospital after being hit on the nose by a man while signing autographs near his car following a political rally.
The habit can be caused by being overweight, drinking alcohol, having collapsed airways, a blocked nose, or by taking some types of medicine such as sleeping tablets before bed.
We threw the ball back and forth during our discussion despite my fear of baseballs (I had my nose smashed by a baseball in college).
If there are problems, the patient can be fed by mouth, by a tube going into the nose and down to the stomach, or directly into the stomach.
Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening like a clamshell outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.
His pale-blue eyes looked watery from exhaustion, the skin of his nose polished as if by a sunburn.
This nose dive was preceded by a 34% drop in stock price yesterday after the company revealed that S.E.
Dispensing with the kind of novelistic portraiture that drives me crazy "the suggestion of a Roman nose, flanked by off-mauve eyes slightly too close together, " I can be concise.
His life was threatened twice, first by a doped-up expatriate and then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.
Microsoft, knowing that Nokia has no alternative OS available as a platform, will lead Nokia by the nose, and certainly Microsoft will attempt to bear-hug Nokia so that Microsoft gets significant cut of the revenue as Nokia recovers.
Then there was the time in the early 1980s when he prospected for gold in the jungles of Mexico, where his life was threatened first by a doped-up expatriate then by a clumsy donkey that Davidson, fearful of falling into a ravine, punched in the nose.
Authorities are hoping they'll have a good answer once they complete an investigation into why the 72-foot catamaran sailed by Artemis Racing of Sweden nose-dived and capsized Thursday after completing a difficult maneuver.
That contempt springs from a keen nose for weakness, honed by the habits of dictatorship and based on an estimate -- so far unrefuted -- of Mr. Obama's mettle.
Mr. NAT KING COLE: (Singing) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, yuletide carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like Eskimos.
Australia won the first session, England the second, and the 79-run partnership between Michael Hussey and Brad Haddin in the final session, helped the hosts stay a nose in front of the game by stumps.
Among the girl's injuries there was also damage to her nose which suggested it had been pinched by a clasp or clip.
Mr Milosevic further thumbed his nose at the world by refusing to let a prosecutor from the international war-crimes tribunal at The Hague, Louise Arbour, enter Kosovo.
Years later, what you thought was a daub by a chimp with a paintbrush turns out to be an old master - and you have to pay through the nose for it!
Gone are the days when quarters of growth succeeded each other nose to tail and national debt was limited by a fiscal rule to 40% of GDP.
The 62-year-old former nurse from Menlo Park, Calif. suffered from chronic sinusitis, a recurring inflammation of the cavities behind the eyes and nose commonly caused by bacterial or viral infections.
Japanese companies (such as Mitsubishi Heavy) are working on a so-called clamshell nose cone that is supposed to increase reliability by opening outside the atmosphere and reducing the number of maneuvers required to hit an incoming missile.
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