Word: half
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the largest or fastest-growing type of gambling. Christiansen/Cummings Associates in New York City, a leading consulting firm to the gaming industry, figures that all kinds of wagering (except friendly bets between individuals) have increased a thumping 57% in the past five years. Casinos took in more than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking and a 228% leap in money...
...political reforms in Poland have the most dramatic flair of any in the Communist world, in part because they are being won under the inspiring banner of Solidarity. Roughhewn shipyard workers such as Lech Walesa and Bogdan Lis survived seven years of repression, forced the government into half-free elections, then humiliated...
...College bureaucracy is Dean of the College Jewett, who is rumored not to have left Harvard for more than a week and a half since he enrolled at the College 36 years...
...gamblers. Without any process at all, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis expelled everyone involved in the Black Sox scandal. His '40s successor, Happy Chandler, gave Brooklyn Dodgers manager Durocher a year's suspension merely for associating with gamblers. In the '60s Bowie Kuhn docked Detroit Tigers pitcher McLain a half-season for making book...
...addition to the occasional painful sunburn, long-term exposure to the sun, especially between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., weakens the skin's elasticity and brings on premature wrinkling and sagging. Of greater concern, it causes as many as half a million new cases of skin cancer every year. Most of these are basal or squamous cell carcinomas, which have high cure rates. But solar radiation may be a cause of melanoma, which can be fatal. Ultraviolet light apparently weakens the immune system; after a severe sunburn, some people suffer outbreaks of oral herpes or other disorders. Excessive exposure aggravates...