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...resistance isn't merely visceral. Compared with the crapshoot of producing movies, the unglamorous business of distributing them is virtually a sure thing: for sending out a $1,400 print of Last Jurassic Action Park, studios get $1 from every ticket sold. Manufacturing and shipping CDs, a business that employs tens of thousands of people, is similarly dull and profitable. Still, the moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony...
Slammers contend that the competition proves nothing about the quality of the poet. "It depends on the judges that day. It's a crapshoot," says Smith...
...business at America's casinos? It all depends on where you look. In the nation's oldest gaming market, Las Vegas, winnings rose 14% last year and profits were up 25%, to $648 million. But in Atlantic City, where gambling has been legal since 1976, business has been a crapshoot at best. The city's dozen boardwalk casinos last week reported combined losses of $266 million for 1990, the first annual losses in a decade. One of the biggest losers: Donald Trump, whose Plaza, Castle and Taj Mahal gaming houses lost $174 million...
What might have been a methodical, scientific quest has turned into a wild crapshoot. In more than 60 laboratories around the world, researchers are working with at least 40 different concoctions in pursuit of one of medicine's most urgent goals: the development of an AIDS vaccine. Any team that succeeds will reap fame, fortune and the satisfaction of possibly wiping out a disease that ranks among the deadliest scourges ever to afflict humanity...
...qualified care givers and pay them whatever it takes to keep them. But for the vast majority, child care is a game of Russian roulette: rotating nannies, unlicensed home care, unregulated nurseries that leave parents wondering constantly: Is my child really safe? "Finding child care is such a gigantic crapshoot," says Edward Zigler, director of Yale's Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy. "If you are lucky, you are home free. But if you are unlucky, well, there are some real horror stories out there of kids being tied into cribs...