Word: digitals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, will abate a tiny bit from the 5.8% expected for this year to 5.7%, and hold there until the end of 1977. This is dramatically better than past doubledigit levels. But Board Member Robert Nathan, who manages his own consulting firm in Washington, feels that the inflation figures have benefited disproportionately from "windfalls" of relatively steady prices of food and fuel...
...impact on the multimillion-dollar illegal numbers racket, even though New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have introduced their own numbers games to compete with the illegals. The most successful of these, run by Maryland, has closely patterned its game after the illicit version. Players choose a three-digit number and can bet on it daily in multiples of 500; the payoff is 500 to 1 in cash, up to $600. It is a more honest game than the numbers rackets. Winners are always paid, which is not always the case on the streets. Illegal numbers banks have been...
...Numbers Game is a parimutuel system. Payoff on the randomly-selected winning number varies inversely with the number of bettors who select that number. Gamblers may play various number combinations in three- and four-digit games...
...Liberals got into trouble because of Trudeau's reputation for arrogance, and also because voters are confused by a series of policy flip-flops and fudges stretching back over a year. After campaigning hard against wage and price controls as a cure for Canada's double-digit inflation, Trudeau abruptly introduced them last October, alienating labor. Shortly afterward, the Prime Minister unsettled the business community by announcing that the "free-market system" in Canada was dead. What he meant was that new solutions, possibly government-imposed, would have to be found for the persistent problem of stagflation. Many...
...Fresno motel room and told him to fix his eyes on a spot on the wall and breathe deeply. Twenty minutes later Ray was under hypnosis. Dr. Kroger then led him through a playback of the kidnaping. The ploy worked. The driver was able to recall all but one digit of the license plate on the kidnapers' white van. The information helped authorities track down three suspects who go on trial later this month...