Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lotteries offer an easy source of revenue for politicians who lack the courage to raise taxes. The problem is that the poor play quite as much as those who are better off and can more easily afford it. Mark Michalko, former director of the California lottery, disputes the idea that lotteries are in effect a regressive tax on the poor. "The vast majority of players are middle-income and higher," he says. Yet he concedes that "there is some small percentage of people in the lower-income brackets who play ((to excess)), and by definition it is going...
Congress is putting pressure on the industry to prevent accidents and do a better job of mopping up slicks. -- The Time-Paramount battle heads for a showdown in a Delaware court. -- T. Boone's Tokyo campaign...
Conversation, Toad thought, was best when walking, since talk itself is an ambling. Toad even talked better to himself when walking -- though if he moved his lips when doing it, he looked like a street crazy. It was at last in the walking that Toad's soul, he found, was most at rest...
...writers have made better use of their estrangement than Naipaul. He recently returned to India to gather material for his third book on the subcontinent, and things could be going more smoothly. A recent election in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has been disruptive. Madras' main streets are filled with festive tides of celebrators waving the red-and-black banners of the victorious Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Party. Naipaul is trying to sort out the issues, which include the historic antagonism of South Indians toward traditional Brahman power. Eventually, he will decipher the complexities of culture and politics on paper...
Most of the nominees were rejected on the grounds that they lacked qualifications. Last week Ryzhkov, who had vowed to fight for his nominees, thought better of it. "I could not see any substantial proof that would enable me to defend them," he admitted. "They simply did not meet demands in one area or another...