Anyways, it’s always best to examine real examples:
1.Another chance forBlackpool?
Gambling policy is a risky business.
Those with moral objections to betting can finally draw some comfort from the government’s plans to bring new casinos to Britain. As events this week confirmed, the enterprise has been a clear lesson in the perils of gambling.
In January the smart money was on Britain’s first ever super-casino being given to Blackpool, a gaudy, bawdy Victorian seaside town in the north-west of England, which is in sore need of a dash of glamour. Instead, the government’s independent selection panel chose nearby Manchester, a boomtown of the 1990s that bookies had deemed a rank outsider.
- An unexpected spin of the wheel, the Economist, March 21st, 2007.
2. In the lean years that followed, Apple learned the hard way what it had lost as a result of Jobs’exile from Cupertino. Mismanaged by a series of increasingly feckless CEOs, Apple began slouching toward mediocrity. You would be hard-pressed to date the decline, but the company lost its wow factor. There wasn’t much of a future in being a ho-hum computer maker with an increasingly small share of the market. Soon, the smart money was betting that Apple wouldn’t even survive.
Apple’s revival began only after Jobs was brought back with the early 1997 acquisition of Next. It wasn’t an overnight turnaround, but Jobs exploited his rock star notoriety to the maximum. It helped turn the trick. In time, the product pipeline got replenished with a flow of eMacs, iMacs, Mac Minis and iPods. Apple had regained its groove.
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