Word: blackjacked
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...public-domain software is amateurish or trivial-for example, programs that imitate birdcalls or beep out the William Tell Overture. But there are free, first-rate programs that enable machines to edit documents or keep electronic ledger books for home businesses. Software abounds for such games as chess and blackjack. One program called A.T.C. simulates the challenge of being an air-traffic controller...
...other major event affecting not only Grand Forks but also the whole-state has been the recent legalization of blackjack. But the gambling in this frigid state is somewhat different from that of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. The maximum bet in North Dakota is $2 and all the profits go to charity...
...While continuing to produce 30 Backfire*bombers a year, which if equipped with in-flight refueling could be used in a nuclear strike against the U.S., Moscow has begun to develop a new strategic jet dubbed the Blackjack to complement its older Tu-95 Bear long-range bombers...
...range to the proposed MX; the other is mobile, similar in concept to what some analysts have proposed for the U.S. The Soviets are also trying to counter U.S. naval superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons-guidance avionics like those...
...Nicknames for Soviet planes are assigned by NATO officials. Bombers are dubbed with words beginning with B, such as Blackjack and Backfire, and fighters are labeled with an F, sometimes bizarrely, as in Foxbat and Frogfoot. The MiG and Su designations refer to two major Soviet design bureaus and honor the late Engineers Ar-tem Mikoyan, Mikhail Gurevich and Pavel Sukhoi...