Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...University of Maine suspended 19 members of its football and basketball teams for their roles in a $10,000-a-week gambling operation; the University of Rhode Island and Bryant College uncovered a gambling ring involving student athletes; a Northwestern University running back who became the school's career rushing leader fumbled the football on the goal line to ensure that his team would not beat the point spread and that he would win his $400 wager; a Central Florida student team manager was convicted in federal court of offering $15,000 in bribes to players to hold down scoring...
...Task Force. In raids in July that year in Las Vegas and Schenectady, authorities arrested 15 bookmakers, confiscated $436,000 in cash and uncovered evidence of a multimillion-dollar betting ring. The Schenectady bookies ran a full-scale operation complete with computers and multiple phone lines. In one eight-week period, police wiretaps turned up 5,800 calls to their "wire room" near downtown Schenectady from gamblers placing bets on college and professional basketball games...
Patrons of the Estoril Casino near Lisbon, Portugal, were left stranded after SIR ELTON JOHN disappeared just half an hour before a scheduled concert last week. "As far as I know, he said there was too much smoke," said a casino spokeswoman. "Then he said he was going out for some air, and we never saw him again." John apparently hopped in a limo, boarded his private jet and took off, leaving an audience that had paid more than $200 a ticket more than a bit peeved. "We have tried to get hold of him and his agent to give...
...choice is unsatisfactory. They plan to stay home on Election Day or cast a protest vote for Al Gore or George W. Bush. But that is taking the easy way out. Serious citizens will study the serious candidates and make a serious choice. Both men proved their seriousness this week. The Federal Election Commission ruled that Buchanan is entitled to the Reform Party's $12.6 million in matching funds, which makes him one of the nation's larger welfare mothers. And a federal judge ruled that Nader may continue running a TV commercial that parodies those of MasterCard. Given...
...source for its Ice Mountain brand. They're bulling ahead with the blessing of Governor Tommy Thompson and waiting on a state pumping permit that could come any day now. This despite crushing votes against Perrier (by ratios of 4-1 and 3-1) in two referendums and last week's 263-92 recall of New Haven town manager Ed Coon, 66. Coon, speaking in his kitchen, moments before his fate was decided, said he thought it was time to grow the area's job and tax base. Others agreed or trusted Perrier's promises not to proceed if environmental...