Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Housed in hotels and shelters throughout the country, the bewildered immigrants are pondering flush toilets, pay phones and a pace of life that seems breathtaking. "We must learn everything," says Kasfi Sheto, 28, who reacts to the sensory overload with a fixed smile. For now he seems content with the multicolored and ill-fitting outfit he plucked from a huge pile of donated clothing. "All we want is to be Israeli...
...competitive hype points to a harsh reality: as surely as a flush beats a straight, some of the riverboat ventures are destined to fold. "I am concerned about saturation if every state gets it," admits Bernard Goldstein, owner of Emerald Lady and Diamond Lady, which docks in Bettendorf, Iowa. Michael Jones, director of the Illinois state lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice...
...among the 360 participants is better equipped for the slot battle than Wickham, who owns a Jackson, N.J., sewer business whose motto somehow says it all: "If You Ain't on Our S--- List, You're No Friend of Ours." Clearly, here's a man who knows a royal flush when he sees one. But his real game, the one he has sharpened through 20 tournaments during the past four years, is the slots. "My strategy is to play as fast as I can," says the self-proclaimed Slot King...
...near-graduate who aspires to a career in journalism says she has posted the masthead of every newspaper that has turned her away. Other students say they and their friends highlight the word "unfortunately" every time it appears in a rejection letter. A few compare what they call "flush rates," circling every consecutive "f," "l," "u," "s," and "h" in each such letter...
Marketing experts may wonder why Denver's Cherry Creek mall is so flush. Generating nearly $400 per sq. ft. in annual sales, it is one of the most profitable shopping centers in America. Could it be the free valet parking for the handicapped, or the swanky Neiman-Marcus store with its $100,000 furs? Guess again, folks! Local shoppers know: it's the mall's bathrooms...