Word: blackjack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grating Noise. To officials in Tokyo, those threats seemed too draconian to be believed. A special U.S. tariff lasting until the yen was revalued enough to please Washington would amount to an unprecedented and almost unimaginable action; the U.S. would be attempting to blackjack a friendly nation into fixing a value for its money that Washington in effect would decide. Finance Minister Fukuda dismissed that talk as a zatsuon (grating noise). A Tokyo banker added that the idea of cutting U.S. shipments of raw materials to Japan was "reminiscent of the eve of Pearl Harbor, when the Roosevelt Administration placed...
...months later found Boston Joey in New York at the Guys and Dolls pool room in Times Square. He began popping greenies, he got involved with a woman, and he persisted in playing in a crooked blackjack game. But he did play good pool. He beat Steve Mizerack two sessions of nine ball, one for $500 in New York and one for $300 in New Jersey. Mizerack's the current United States straight pool champion. And Joey...
...years ago, Black Jack, Mo., was bucolic farmland, a crossroads settlement that took its name from a stand of blackjack oak trees that once shaded farmers on their way to market in St. Louis, 15 miles to the north. All of this changed in the '60s with the arrival of the subdividers and developers who cut many of the farms into lots, built ranch and split-level houses in the $30,000 to $35,000 price range. Soon Black Jack was engulfed by the white exodus to the suburbs. Now the town is in the middle of a controversy...
...self-repairing computer is not entirely foolproof. It could not, for example, cope with a flurry of failures that knocked out parts faster than they could be replaced. But in most test situations, STAR has proved a stellar performer. On one occasion, J.P.L. scientists taught it to play blackjack, then momentarily shut down its electrical power, hoping to unsettle the computer brain. No luck. STAR immediately revived, tersely acknowledged the disruption, resumed the game exactly where it had left...
...counter culture is anathema in Vegas. Hang around the blackjack tables and you'll see that the greening of America has very little to do with determined little plants poking their heads through concrete vistas. Vegas was to have a rock festival last July, a bone-dry echo of Woodstock was all set to grit its teeth against the drifting sands while digging into an abandoned airfield on the edge of town. The town fathers moved quickly to see that it never came...