laying odds

But if anyone were laying odds on the Northwest beach town that will be the first to have enough refuges for its entire population, Westport still would be the best bet.

Money market traders still heavily favour a quarter point rate increase at the next policy meeting in September, laying odds of 86.5%.

The host would be laying odds because home ice offers a tangible advantage.

While Las Vegas bookies aren’t laying odds — yet — on when the landslide at Rattlesnake Ridge will let loose, engineers and geologists tracking the treacherous slope near Yakima are placing their bets on mid-March to early April.

It is interesting, in such a world, to hear Iran experts in recent days uncomfortably laying odds on whether the current Iranian uprising will sputter out or blossom into something bigger.