Word: recommendation
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...addition, say some observers, the commission is looking more and more like a stablehand closing the barn door when the horse is just grazing in the yard. Even though the commission is likely to recommend a cooling-off period, analysts say the industry is already lukewarm at best. The reason: Gambling expansion has slowed in recent years. The public is losing interest, lottery ticket sales are flat for the first time in three decades, and expansion was a nonstarter in several state ballot boxes last November. Even the gambling mecca itself, Las Vegas, is trying to remake itself...
Seven weeks to go before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission is supposed to report to Congress, and all bets are off. The commission, which has been deliberating for two years, appears poised to recommend a controversial moratorium on gambling expansion; it also may call for more regulation of both Internet gambling and the rapidly expanding Indian casino market. But the odds of implementing these measures are long, to say the least. Four of the commission's nine members are unhappy with the moratorium, which they say would be perceived as a permanent ban on growth. And except...
...activities is one of money. While the average grant this term has been $350.00, one of the highest in the council's history, the rapid increase in the number of student groups has strained the committee's resources to the limit. With few exceptions, the Finance Committee can only recommend grants that are one-half to two-thirds of a group's request. Most student groups are forced to turn to other resources, or, more frequently, scale back their plans or go into debt to their own members, debts which sometimes cannot be paid back. These latter two options...
Your television. Watch as much TV as you can. I recommend re-runs of "The Cosby Show," "The Jeffersons," "Boy Meets World," and "Behind the Music." Next year you won't have time to enjoy such gems of the small screen and late at night, you'll find yourself missing the warm buzz of that cathode tube...
Many popular diets recommend limiting the consumption of eggs, but these recommendations are often based on indirect evidence, according to SPH Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Meir J. Stampfer, another author of the study...