Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players of Montana's Big Spin lottery game, lady luck went on vacation and never came back. In Big Spin, the state chooses three people each week from among thousands of losing lottery ticket holders and gives them a chance to win a $1 million jackpot by whirling the Big Spin wheel. But in 222 tries over the past 18 months, no one has hit the jackpot. Officials added a second $1 million slot to the 100-slot wheel, but to no avail. Without a big winner to hype, ticket sales have dropped from $23 million in fiscal...
...big wheel fixed? Evidently not: the jackpot has turned up several times in practice runs. Perhaps lottery officials should talk to Vanna White for a few tips...
...still happening too. There was never any cardinal rule about rock -- that was its only cardinal rule -- and it can't be written off or knocked off because, from its sheer quality and audacity, it has persisted. No rules, no predictable half-life. Rock may have become Big Business, but it still has no set agenda and no fixed address. Lots of names, lots of labels, lots of styles, and by now lots of history, some of it even proud...
...encountered the corpses of horses everywhere. Poor horses, big defenseless animals that don't know how to hide. They stand motionless, waiting for death. It was always the corpses of horses -- black, bay, pied, chestnut -- lying upside down with the legs pointing into the air, their hooves admonishing the world. It was as if it were a war not between people but between horses, as if they were the only victims of the strife...
SPORT: Beach volleyball nets some big bucks...