Word: bryan
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...that casual gambling, in which participants wager small sums, is not necessarily bad. Compulsive betting, however, almost always involves destructive behavior. Last fall police in Pennsauken, N.J., arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of burglary. The youth said he stole items worth $10,000 to support his gambling habit. Bryan, a 17-year-old from Cumberland, N.J., recently sought help after he was unable to pay back the $4,000 he owed a sports bookmaker. Greg from Philadelphia says he began placing weekly $200 bets with bookies during his sophomore year in college. "Pretty soon it got to the point...
...knows that better than General Norman Schwarzkopf. Not only was he once bombed by U.S. B-52s in Vietnam, but he was the commanding officer of a young Iowa farm boy, Michael Mullen, whose death by U.S. shelling became the subject of C.D.B. Bryan's 1976 best seller, Friendly Fire...
...counterbids are already appearing in Congress, where two dozen energy- related bills are circulating, including several that would require higher fuel-efficiency levels. One that was introduced in the Senate last week by Nevada Democrat Richard Bryan and Washington Republican Slade Gorton would oblige U.S. automakers to increase the current 27.5-m.p.g. average fuel- efficiency standard to 34 m.p.g. within five years and to 44 m.p.g. within a decade. Supporters are confident they have the votes to win. A similar measure was defeated in the Senate last year...
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When he joined the Wall Street Journal in 1983, reporter Bryan Burrough could barely tell a buyout from a bailout. But Burrough, 29, co-author of the best seller Barbarians at the Gate, has become a formidable chronicler of Roaring Eighties-style shenanigans and greed. In a deal befitting a literary superstar, publisher HarperCollins last month agreed to pay Burrough $1 million for a book on American Express and the smear campaign it waged in the 1980s against international banker Edmond Safra. "I was absolutely stunned," Burrough said of the cash advance. "To me, the money is not a real...