Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming Commission, a computer has recorded the decision-making patterns of some 250 volunteers. The game that they are asked to play (with real money) has two parts: in the first, a player must select two bets, one good and one bad, from four that are offered him; in the second, he has the option to keep or get rid of a bet, depending upon how he judges its value...
Only four days after he took office, President Richard Nixon joined one of the biggest and angriest dogfights in airline history. He abruptly canceled a December decision by Lyndon Johnson that had supposedly settled for good a four-year contest for the first new transpacific air routes to be parceled out in 20 years. Johnson's awards, to six of 18 competing airlines, had left Washington seething with charges of high-altitude politicking and string pulling by "rainmakers," the cocktail-circuit term for former L.B.J. aides who had found lucrative jobs with some of the lines. Nixon promised...
...where they will draw the most publicity. In Florida, the promotion manager of one oil company personally chose the two stations to receive winning tickets for the top prizes-two cars -and told dealers to issue them to a customer from a college or local company so that the good word would get around. The more popular the game, the deeper the gouging. Tickets went so fast in one game that the company had to put in a rush order for "200,000 additional losers...
...likely prospect that Congress may impose compulsory-and much stiffer-textile-import controls in the absence of voluntary restrictions. As Stans warned before leaving Washington, "The task will not be easy." It may well prove impossible. But Stans insists that while "an expansionary trade policy is good for the U.S., it must not be at the price of dismantling one of our major industries...
Scratch a wine expert, find a frustrated poet. Wines are seldom good or bad; they are "serious" or "sprightly," "frivolous" or "untrustworthy." When New York Wine Importer Frank Schoonmaker talks about "sunny, lovable little fellows, never a bit sullen or ill-tempered or withdrawn," he is not boasting about his children or a litter of puppies; he is describing the wines of the Rhine and Moselle river valleys...