Word: harshness
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...competitive hype points to a harsh reality: as surely as a flush beats a straight, some of the riverboat ventures are destined to fold. "I am concerned about saturation if every state gets it," admits Bernard Goldstein, owner of Emerald Lady and Diamond Lady, which docks in Bettendorf, Iowa. Michael Jones, director of the Illinois state lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice...
...Harsh Measures Ahead...
...title character, is the pampered youngest child and only son of a % once wealthy family that fled China following the Communist takeover and settled in a poor -- and predominantly black -- neighborhood in San Francisco. When Kai's mother dies, his father brings home a white wife. She institutes a harsh Americanization campaign that bans all Chinese food, language and customs from the house and abandons her stepson to regular beatings at the hands of neighborhood bullies who call him by the humiliating name China Boy. Kai gets little help from his father, who "was in an untenable position, forked...
...year-old widower (Robert Loggia) comes home from vacation with a surprise for his three grown children: a 30-year-old fiance. Since this is TV sitcomland, the May-September romance sends his kids into a wisecracking snit. Before dinner one evening, their barbs get so harsh that the fiance, known as TT, scurries into the hallway, casts her eyes skyward and asks for help: "Chief -- Code Blue, Code Blue! I knew they'd be upset, but this is ridiculous...
...seek abortion counseling and referrals. But it narrows -- and in some cases may even eliminate -- access to such services for many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates at one another again, arguing the merits of the decision itself and predicting fearfully or hopefully that the court will next...