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...basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance. Asks Bobby Knight, basketball coach of Indiana University: "Why don't the newspapers run whores' phone numbers? Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution...
Even those figures understate the spread of gambling fever. The biggest jump is in gambling that state and local governments not merely tolerate but promote. By next January, lotteries will be operating in 32 states and the District of Columbia, including four states -- Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota -- whose voters approved them in referendums last November. In 1964 only one state, New Hampshire, had a lottery. Christiansen/Cummings figures that the lotteries took in $17 billion last year, up 230% from 1983. As the lotteries have proliferated, so have the jackpots: Pennsylvania's $115.5 million drawing in April prompted bettors from...
Quayle has been building a reputation for himself behind the scenes too. Last month the Indiana conservative formed an unlikely alliance with a Brooklyn liberal, Congressman Stephen Solarz, on a complex issue. Quayle returned from a trip to Southeast Asia convinced that the U.S. should give military assistance to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's faction in Cambodia. Solarz shared that view. Together they lobbied to deflect a Senate proposal to bar such aid. Quayle's initiative surprised Solarz on two counts. "Quayle seemed to be one of the few in the Administration who really seized the issue," he says...
...newspapers run whores' phone numbers?" Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight would like to know. But he is an excitable character. "They run odds and point spreads on all the games. Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution?" It is, judging from the easy patter heard at every corner of sports. Make that every corner of society...
...which we are converted, for purposes of contemptuous calculation, into some lower life-form? Do moviegoers suddenly seem to them to be, say, a vast colony of ants mindlessly munching through forests of Roman numerals, unconcerned about the taste, good or bad, of anything placed in our path? (Yum -- Indiana Jones III; slurp -- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; burp -- Ghostbusters...