Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file cops in San Diego hired Teamsters professionals for $150,000 to negotiate their contract, and the Chicago Patrolmen's Association has endorsed a Teamsters...
...decade. In the early 1960s, outside of Nevada, state-countenanced gambling was almost entirely confined to track betting. Today, 44 states have some form of legalized gambling and the kinds are growing. Legislation to permit new and expanded types of wagering?from jai alai to bingo, dog racing and card rooms ?is pending in 37 states. A few states have even invaded the fertile field of numbers betting, long the exclusive and profitable province of organized crime. Two states, Delaware and Montana, have joined Nevada in providing legal betting on sports events like professional football, which is where illegal...
...church basement in New York City. G.A., which now has 450 chapters across the U.S. and others in Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was founded in 1957 when two addicted gamblers met by chance on a Los Angeles street. One of the gamblers was rushing to a card game, the other to a race track, and they started telling each other their problems. There are now 5,000 members of G.A. in the U.S., but they represent only a tiny percentage of the nation's compulsive gamblers, variously estimated to number from 1 million to more than...
CHRISTMAS 1976. Divorced! My cards, bearing a drawing of a worried monk swinging on a bell rope to escape a mouse, will soon go out. They are a vehicle to announce to everyone who already knows it that I am single again. They are print-personalized, but anyone who is in any way important to me will get the card with the type crossed out and holiday homilies scribbled in. So why print-personalize the card at all? Don't ask such embarrassing questions...
...confusion arose because the Business School did not issue magnetic cards to the 120 undergraduates in its lot when it installed card-activated gates to control access...