Word: gambler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...think it's an open question whether any adult should gamble ... It's an absolutely closed question whether a baseball player should gamble on baseball." WILLIAM BENNETT, former Secretary of Education, conservative spokesman and confessed gambler, on Pete Rose's admission that he gambled on baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds...
...gambling: both hold aspirations to work in professional baseball. The same topic has even managed to bridge the gap between Patitucci and infamous conservative Gladden J. Pappin, though it takes a combination of psychobabble and reverence: “Baseball would be more self-actualizing than basically being a gambler,” says Patitucci. “It’s the national pastime and the most beautiful game I’ve ever seen...
...your own, and times are tough. Your little girl is chronically ill and the drugs she needs don’t come cheap. Your son made it to college, but his financial aid only goes so far. To top it off, it turns out dad was also a compulsive gambler, and he managed to rack up a sizeable debt with the wrong bunch of guys. Now they expect you to pay up, or else. What choice do you have? Too bad for your boy though, he’s had to drop out of school and start working full time...
...have been reading a lot about the stock market, but when I started, I didn't know how to work a computer--or even a mobile phone. I also knew the economy was falling down. It was a very interesting experience. I'm not a gambler. The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying...
PASSIONADA. Leading actor Jason Isaacs portrays compulsive gambler Charles Beck, who pretends to be a successful fishing business entrepreneur. He courts Celia Amonte, a Portuguese widow, after she receives some encouragement from her teenage daughter. Amonte (Sofia Milos) reluctantly falls in love with him, at least until she discovers his true occupation. The Dan Ireland film received rave reviews after its first screening as the closing picture at the Seattle International Film Festival. Passionada screens...