Word: containedness
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Legalized gambling was set up in cities like Las Vegas so that the depravity of betting on cards and dice could be contained in one or two cities. The plan was not unlike Prohibition would have been if the only places to drink were Akron and Erie. Confining gambling turned...
The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach’s blues-rock duo, have always seemed to hold to their well-established sound. The two-man band has made four full-length albums since their debut, “The Big Come Up,” in 2002, hardly altering their spare...
The Cambridge City Council approved a rezoning measure after a contentious public meeting last night, clearing the way for six blocks of biotech labs to be constructed in East Cambridge. The Council’s decision, coming by an 8-1 vote after months of negotiations with biotech real estate...
A creamy bed of ivory lentils, topped with seared root vegetables, and drizzled with a cider gastrique stole the hearts of students and judges at Winthrop House’s vegetarian cook-off last night. Four teams competed to create environmentally-conscious and delicious dishes from a table overflowing with...
The nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a...