Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...travelers. While the state has always cast a cold eye toward entries that use nasty ethnic or sexual terms, more than 300 tags with variations of the words dago and wop slipped through. Responding to complaints from the Sons of Italy organization, California has issued an unprecedented recall of dicey plates that sport such titles as DUMDAGO, 14KWOP, DAGOGOD and TOPWOP. Some drivers were allowed to keep their tags, like the '50s music-enthusiast owner of DUWOP39. But many of the Italian Americans who proudly tool around above the offending plates are balking at giving them up: 162 drivers have...
Cerullo is entering a dicey and competitive business. Although cable is ( ideal for specialized TV programming, experts figure that only two or three of the numerous religious networks can survive the next few years. Eternal Word (independent Roman Catholic, 14 million households) and ACTS (Southern Baptist-owned, 9.5 million) are pinning their salvation on locally based denominational loyalty. An interfaith and ecumenical entry known as VISN (7.4 million) just got Tele-Communications, Inc. and other cable owners to pledge as much as $12 million and give it two years to succeed. But VISN's programming is nonconfrontational, and hot gospel...