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...collecting a payoff than all the players put together, and it does not even have to buy a ticket. It keeps 45% of all the money invested on tickets. Another 15% is withheld to help cover operating costs, including 6% to ticket vendors and 1% for bank fees and bonus prizes to vendors. That leaves only 40% of the total take to be distributed in prize money. In other words, if somebody spent $1 million to buy up all the tickets in a hypothetical lottery, he would end up losing...
...wage settlement actually reached--a six per cent wage increase coupled with a $100 bonus--is pitifully inadequate and does not even cover the rate of nationwide price inflation. It represents a figure rejected by the union during last year's contract negotiations, and was accepted only because the university had threatened the workers with "permanent replacement" if they did not immediately return to their jobs...
Klemmer will be playing this Sunday at 8 p.m., in the Berklee Performance Center. There is an added bonus for the adventurous: Sommerville-Cambridge's favorite funny-man David Misch (no sarcasm, the guy is really a riot) will be on the case with a few pre-performance laughs...
Delaware's system is modeled on horse racing's familiar parimutuel pool method. Bettors may buy into two weekly pools, called "Football Bonus" and "Touchdown." The Bonus requires picking winners outright in either seven or 14 N.F.L. games; in Touchdown, fans must hit the point spread correctly as well as predict the outcome of any three, four or five games. It will cost $20 to bet on the Football Bonus and $10 on Touchdown. The payoffs, which will be announced on Tuesdays following the weekend games, will amount to 45% of the total pool. At race tracks...
...uncle had the vehicle: a 1952 Chevy pick-up bought run-to-death for $180 in 1956 when Bell's uncle received his Korean bonus. The previous owner had been a rural mailman famed for his flying delivery service, driving his 85-mile route in under two hours over bad West Virginia roads, slinging packages and newspapers at rotting front steps in the nascent mountain morning, steering with his knee, one hand on the shift, one slinging, and two wheels off the ground. The radio, Hank Williams or Lefty Frizzell, turned all the way up: "Hunny jes LOW me nother...