Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number 6 million would participate in the game." Arnie Wexler, a recovering compulsive gambler and the head of the New Jersey chapter of the National Council, asserted that the chances of hitting Lotto 48 are about a third those "of getting hit by lightning and dying, which are about 2 million...
...repay the loans by working seven-day weeks for more than two years and curtailing expenses. Gone now are the twice-yearly European vacations, the expensive athletic club membership and the shopping binges in designer boutiques. Gone also is her nonmortgage debt. Says Chambre: "I'm so glad that chapter of my life is over...
...artisans with his acute eye and gift for camera placement and movement, lighting, editing and the care and feeding of actors. But he is also a compulsive teller of stories about himself as he once was and still is. Each new film he directs or oversees is like another chapter in the autobiography of a modern Peter...
...wide-open ball game for exploitation," says Attorney Peter Larrabee, a former officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service who is head of the A.I.L.A.'s San Diego chapter. "There is an enormous amount to be made if you're crooked." Five lawyers have been convicted or sentenced this year on charges stemming from immigration-law violations. Two have been disbarred. The best known of the high-profile immigration lawyers, Gerald Kaiser of New York City, was indicted in April by a federal grand jury in Florida for allegedly defrauding other lawyers, who paid as much...
...latest, and perhaps the last, chapter in what must rank as the most bizarre search of the century began two weeks ago in a small Bavarian town in West Germany. It quickly led to a Brazilian suburb where, amid a tangle of documents, false names and controversial clues, there emerged the strange tale of friendship between a quiet Austrian couple and the reclusive man who had lived under an assumed name in a modest bungalow. Last week, on a brilliant autumn afternoon, 200 people converged on a cemetery in the town of Embu, some 25 miles south of the Brazilian...