Word: dicing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evans cashed in on this tendency in a meaningful Valentine's Day gift. She gave Christodoulo a pair of small metal dice...
...they laughed when STEVE WYNN brought Picasso and Matisse to his casino in Las Vegas. Was the guy nuts? High art in the high desert? But when Wynn, the chairman of Mirage Resorts Inc., rolls the dice, he usually wins. His tiny two-room gallery at the Bellagio hotel has lured more than 100,000 people since its opening in late October. In the past month, more than 2,000 people a day have been anteing up $10 each to see Wynn's collection of 20 paintings, from Degas to Picasso. Wynn has also made his presence felt...
Instead, citing losses over the years of more than $3 million and $660,000 in current debt, he and his wife Dorathy intend to throw the dice in a one-day minitrial before a mediator. They'll come armed with numerous loan applications denied by the Federal Services Administration, and other loan requests that weren't even considered in the 14 years before Barker finally secured his first loan...
...what may be the most important week of his presidency. The spin connection was made explicit in the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman's sermon: Dr. King was a flawed man, but his personal flaws are eclipsed by his historic achievements. While the President's lawyers prepare to slice and dice the prosecution's reading of both the facts and the law on Tuesday, Clinton hopes to shift attention to his accomplishments and his plans. His State of the Union address will focus on saving Social Security and on improving education. Spin subtext: Congress may be consumed by an unpopular impeachment...
...WORST Technology is pushing us toward the tinier and thinner, but car companies (encouraged by buyers) keep making sport-utility vehicles bigger. As well as pollution and gas consumption, this leads to bigger garages, bigger parking lots and, yikes, bigger fluffy dice...