Word: poker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While speaking out against the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, a federal law giving Native Americans the ability to run gambling facilities as a way of improving tribal well-being. Weld promoted legislation to let race-track owners run off-track betting salons complete with video poker games, Roosevelt alleged at the conference...
Those geopoliticians who have been hungering for an aftermath to the cold war -- a tragicomic sequel -- have been richly rewarded over this summer, as two of the last stalwarts of communism, North Korea and Cuba, have rattled their rhetorical sabers, flourished their poker hands and roared their threats into the wind. Though both of them have something of the air of those Japanese soldiers lost in the Southeast Asian jungle and unaware that the war they have been fighting was concluded long ago, both also have the desperate -- and therefore dangerous -- recklessness of isolated dictatorships whose coffers are close...
...limitations expired on Feb. 28. That was good news to Administration officials, who presumably knew the Clintons' potential civil liability to Madison losses would expire with the deadline. Altman's disclosure, said Senator Connie Mack, a Florida Republican, was like "showing your hand to an opponent in a poker game." (As it turned out, Congress extended the deadline...
...tipped hers. After such a rousing affirmation of the police and their judgment, it was unlikely that she would consign their case to legal limbo. From then on, Clark's presentation of her witnesses seemed less like that of a prosecutor fighting for her case than of a victorious poker player laying down a royal flush, card by card...
...century Mishnah commentator Yom-Tov Lippman Heller. After first setting hands on a computer in second grade, however, Heller always assumed he'd be a mathematician or do something with computers. By fifth grade, he was proficient enough that an older student paid him to hack into a strip poker software program...