Word: admited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truly compulsive debtors, there is Debtors Anonymous, a ten-year-old national group. Modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous, it encourages debtors to admit that they have been unable to exercise any control over their impulse to spend money. One first piece of advice offered by both credit counselors and D.A.: cut up all credit cards and pay only cash. Reformed Debtor Barbara Aissen, a 49-year-old nurse at Miami Children's Hospital, recalls her own reaction upon hearing this suggestion. Says she: "I didn't have to think about it twice. I said, 'Where's the scissors? I'll slice...
...finishes, twists his accreted features into a look of gentle disdain, and laughs, "Well, I'll be the first to admit it. Bert's story here has a few problems...
...citizens--have prudently chosen the latter course. Almost nobody entertains the idea that a gambling trip will pay the Christmas bills. They haven't budgeted for winning, but for how much they can afford to lose: from $30 to $2,000. (At least those are the figures they'll admit to.) Many of them say they are going to Vegas mainly to get warm. This is no doubt the reason why Mickey Koehler lugs $40 worth of quarters and $20 in dimes onto the plane--for the exercise. Still, the notion that just one of those dimes in the right...
...down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people ask. "$100," comes the reply...
...gifted interviewer, and, judging by his books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like Eskimo children: there is good and bad in everyone, and that is the way of the world...