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...HKJC CEO Lawrence Wong warned that horse racing in Hong Kong is facing "irreparable damage" from illegal bookmakers and hefty taxes. Horse-race-gambling revenue taken in by the club?which is less a sanctuary for the moneyed classes than it is a government-sanctioned monopoly gaming enterprise?has fallen in six of the past seven years. Last season's take was 30% lower than in 1997. Says Wong in an e-mail to TIME: "The situation [has] caused real concerns over the long-term ability of the club to sustain its racing operations...
Troops who don't use official services must find their own coping mechanisms, often within their unit. Leaders try to find downtime for their men, and memorial services for the fallen can help with grieving. But clinically speaking, Nash says, most soldiers and Marines engage in denial and dissociation to get through. "Everybody out here is putting all this stuff in a closet and storing it up," he says, "because you just can't deal with it right...
...early 1980S, Burroughs Corp. was desperately seeking a way to get back in the game against IBM. Burroughs had fallen so far behind that it found itself utterly dwarfed by its larger rival. Burroughs' solution? Undertake the then largest merger in computer history: buy Sperry Corp. and create a new company--dubbed Unisys--as a single-step leap to greatness...
Homicides in U.S. workplaces have fallen nearly 40% in the past decade. Even so, Oklahoma passed a law forbidding employers to ban guns from company parking lots. State legislator Jerry Ellis says law-abiding hunters should be allowed to stow firearms in their cars at work. Employees with violent intent, Ellis says, "are not going to be stopped no matter how many laws you have." The Whirlpool appliance company, backed by other Oklahoma businesses, is suing to keep from complying with the law, which was supposed to take effect Nov. 1. Whirlpool, which employs 1,500 workers at its Tulsa...
Only a week before, the Crimson had fallen behind then-No. 1 Boston College just 62 seconds into the game—only to come back and win the contest...