10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWO-HORSE RACE»
Discover the use of
two-horse race in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
two-horse race and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
With this assumption of differential information, we consider a two- horse race
and show that the bias is positive when the track take is positive and smaller
when the take is negligible. To test this implication we ran two parimutuel-betting
...
John Cunningham Wood, Robert D. Wood, 2004
2
The Economics of Professional Team Sports
In the two-horse race, the front runners gain 72 points from their 36 wins plus two
more from their drawn games, making 74 in all. The runners-up get 34 points
from their draws. The one- and two-horse race(s) are extremely close for all
teams ...
Paul Downward, Alistair Dawson, 2002
3
Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z
One of the many girlfriends of King ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt, Bilistiche
won the four-horse chariot race for colts (po ̄loi) at Olympia in 268 and then the
two-horse race at the following festival. That was its inaugural run: perhaps her ...
4
Microeconomic Foundations I: Choice and Competitive Markets
Suppose h and g are two horse-race lotteries, and a is a number between zero
and one. Define a new horse-race lottery, denoted ah + (1 a)g, as follows: For
each state s, the new horse-race lottery gives as prize the roulette lottery ah(s) + (
1 ...
5
The Political Consequences of Being a Woman: How Stereotypes ...
Similarly, most articles about female challengers contain about two horse race
paragraphs while only one paragraph is devoted to the horse race in articles
about male challengers. These modal differences are represented in the four
senate ...
Kim Fridkin Kahn, Kim Fridkin, 1996
6
Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories
We need an explicit alternative model that tells how probable are runs in
sequences chosen by humans. We need a two-horse race to decide which horse
wins. But now we have a problem: though there is only one “random” model,
there are ...
7
Sport in a Capitalist Society: A Short History
The secret of aristocracy is zoology.35 Until the end of the seventeenth century,
an average horse race was literally a two-horse race, in which two horse owners
would ride against each other for a wager. Race meetings were primarily social ...
8
Financial Calculus: An Introduction to Derivative Pricing
A bookmaker is taking bets on a two-horse race. Choosing to be scientific, he
studies the form of both horses over various distances and goings as well as
considering such factors as training, diet and choice of jockey. Eventually he
correctly ...
With the home stretch in front of them, it was a two-horse race. Cyndi kept
Hallucination in a straight line, not trying to get closer to Button Hook, and that is
how the two horses pounded down the straight. Button Hook was running well
but ...
“If it's a one- or two-horse race, I'll pick up the camera with the 135mm.”
Remembering that he'd have to run across the track to photograph the winner's
circle immediately after the race, he grabbed two more lenses, a 24mm and a 50-
mm, from ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TWO-HORSE RACE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
two-horse race is used in the context of the following news items.
F1 Mid-season Review: A two-horse race for the world crown
Turn the clock back to this point last season, and the position is all too familiar. With admittedly one race more prior to the mid-season calendar, the 2014 season ... «Sport360°, Jul 15»
Cowen: Cloud Services Business Is Now A 'Two-Horse Race'
“While our prior work suggested some competitive parity,” Blackledge writes, “this year's survey conveys it's a two-horse race with AWS leading Azure.” ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
Lakers Rumors: LA, Spurs Part Of 'Two-Horse Race' For LaMarcus …
The Lakers and San Antonio are part of a “two-horse race” for Aldridge, according to a person familiar with his thinking. The extra $28 million he could get in a ... «Lakers Nation, Jul 15»
From a two-horse race to a free-for-all: what does it mean for the …
With 25 minutes to go, the deputy leadership election was a two-horse race. Stella Creasy had just five names to go, but just nineteen MPs were left to nominate. «New Statesman, Jun 15»
Ferrari's resurgence sparks hope of a two-horse race
With another class-of-the-field car under his command and a dominant performance in four of the first six races, Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton should have led ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
Luis Figo pulls out of Fifa presidential race to leave two-horse race
Luis Figo has withdrawn from the Fifa presidential race, eight days before an election where Sepp Blatter is expected to win a fifth term. Photograph: Matt ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Gartner shows two-horse race in IaaS cloud: AWS and Microsoft Azure
Research firm Gartner's annual report card on the public IaaS cloud computing market shows there is one clear leader – Amazon Web Services – and another ... «Network World, May 15»
The cloud is a two-horse race between AWS and Microsoft
If there was any doubt before, the recent earnings calls with Amazon and Microsoft settled the matter: it's a two-horse race for the cloud. Both Seattle-area based ... «TechRepublic, Apr 15»
Five Things to Watch in Sunday's London Marathon Men's Race
This is not going to be a two-horse race. Geoffrey Mutai, winner of the wind-aided 2011 Boston (2:03:02) and twice at New York, may be fading very slightly. «Runner's World Newswire, Apr 15»
Opinion: Ohio State quarterback battle should be a two horse race
But only one can be the main man, and in my opinion, it's a two-horse race. I agree with what Meyer said about a week ago, that each quarterback deserves a ... «OSU - The Lantern, Apr 15»
