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...four Mississippi counties have rejected the floating crap tables and roulette wheels; three have approved them. State law gives each county its own option on whether to permit gambling, just as it does with alcohol. In fact, gaming has been readily available to Mississippians for years. Boats offering "dinner cruises" regularly leave Gulfport and Biloxi bound for international waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The slots and dice usually roll long before the boats reach the 12-mile limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling: Betting on The Devil | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...League of Savings Institutions -- a shamed lobbying group for S&Ls -- decided that its 1991 convention site in Las Vegas would only fuel the public perception that S&Ls have been run like a crap shoot for years. New venue: Disney World in Orlando...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ignoble Prize for Candor | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...Inventory is socialism," retorts an unshaven man ahead. "Hence all this crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remember The Good Old Lines? | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...underworld's most powerful force is the quieter and more sophisticated Genovese clan, with its entrenched army of more than 1,500 "made" members and associated underworld entrepreneurs. "You keep hearing all this crap about Gotti being the boss of the bosses," says Richard Ross, one of the FBI's leading Mafia experts, "but Genovese has always been the country's most powerful family." Says Joseph Coffey, a top investigator at the New York State Organized Crime Task Force: "The Genovese gang more or less invented labor racketeering. I consider them the Ivy League of the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: The Underworld Is Their Oyster | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...both sort of straightforward and blunt with each other," Montalbano explains. "If I don't like something he's doing, I'll tell him. He does the same to me. We've had a bantering relationship where I don't take any of his crap and he doesn't take mine...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Espousing the Direct Approach | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

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