Word: riverboat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, by golly, no one would call George Bush timid. Quite the contrary, the President made a rare appearance as Bush the riverboat gambler. By sending a high-level delegation to Beijing to confer with Chinese authorities who only six months earlier had ordered the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators near Tiananmen Square, Bush knew he would stir up a hurricane of outraged protest. And for what? The slender chance that China would respond with concessions that could begin to melt the ice in U.S. relations with the world's most populous nation...
...nucleus of a national lottery; it currently operates in eight states and the District of Columbia and expects to sign up two more states this summer. Iowans can also bet at one horse track and three dog tracks, and in two years they will be able to become riverboat gamblers. This spring the state legislature approved a 1991 start for wagering on vessels plying the Mississippi...
...there is one opinion on which both gambling experts and ordinary bettors are in unanimous agreement, it is that state-sponsored gambling has been the driving force behind the huge increases in all types of wagering, legal and illegal. Legislators who approve lotteries, legal horse-betting parlors or riverboat gambling are spreading the message that wagering is respectable. "Gambling has been part of every known society," says Dr. Eric Plaut, vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly...
...till the Dow Jones average tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat gambler" suitably disguised by self-deprecation and a digressive academic manner. Frank replies that Allmon, who has lately kept his portfolios in cash, just can't handle the action anymore. He's got "gun-shy." Las Vegas is not big enough for both of them...
...That's not necessarily true. I am always looking for innovative people. In Viet Nam I was running the riverboat operation, and two kinds of people showed up. One asked for the tactical doctrine on how to operate those boats. When we said there wasn't any, he froze. That man was useless. Another type would say, "You mean nobody knows how to do this?", and "I know as much as anybody?" And when I said yes, he'd say, "Hot dog!" and go off and do it. That guy was great...