Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, betting on sporting events other than horse or dog races or jai alai is generally a crime in every state except Nevada. But by now the prohibition, like many other antigambling laws, is hardly ever enforced. Betting goes on so openly that all but a handful of newspaper sports pages print the odds on baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance...
...Except for a couple of the oldest machines, all the games in the show can be played by visitors (the $5 admission charge -- $2.50 for kids -- gets you a packet of five tokens). Most of the greats and near greats are here: Space Invaders, the 1978 hit that popularized the genre's single most enduring theme, warfare in space; Donkey Kong, whose endearingly quirky scenario had a little man racing up a skyscraper to rescue a girl from the clutches of a giant gorilla; and Tron, the only video game that was more popular than the movie that inspired...
...until he got his bonus, everything would have been fine. "Sure, sure," said three of his creditors, who had heard it all before. They forced him into bankruptcy over $60,000. Six months later, he got a quarter of a million dollars bonus and paid off all his creditors except the three. When his rage at them subsides, he may pay them too. I hope...
Nothing had changed, except the birth of hope. Its harbinger is a frail, shy Salesian priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A charismatic preacher of liberation theology, Aristide was spokesman for Ti Legliz -- the "Little Church" of the slums, in contrast to the grand official church of Haiti's temporizing bishops and its French-speaking "mulatto elite." Yet even Aristide ends as one more victim of Haiti's misery. Army goons burn his church, murdering many of his congregants, and Aristide eventually becomes a priest sans pulpit when the Salesians dismiss him for being too political...
Apart from the problematic location, the basilica's distinctly non-African design has raised questions: all the figures depicted in the stained-glass windows are white, except for a lone black pilgrim who bears a remarkable resemblance to Houphouet-Boigny. Especially troublesome is the cost of the construction: the price tag may exceed $200 million...