Word: jackpot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rain for 20 minutes in Manhattan to buy $5 worth of chances. "There's something going on in this state," he said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed a $73 million pot.) In the final days before the drawing, tickets for the outsize prize were selling at the frenzied rate...
...cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone. In fact, ticket sales are so brisk that this year the state figures to rake in $520 million in profit from $1.14 billion in lottery bets...
...their houses up for rent during the Games. Prospective landlords, however, cannot be quite as demanding as they were some months ago. According to many realtors, there was a glut of private accommodations on the market even before the boycott, forcing widespread price cutting. But some Angelenos hit the jackpot. Chuckled Steve Obeck, who arranged the lease of eight plush residences to East European groups with full payment in advance: "Those homeowners can have their cake and eat it too. They can stay home for the Games...
...experienced a Golding-like stroke of good fortune; Coldharbour, his first novel, written just after World War II, became a commercial and critical success and apparently goes on selling as vigorously as Lord of the Flies, Golding's first and most famous novel. "I hit the jackpot," Barclay says. "Someone has to." In addition to fame and fortune, he has also won Rick L. Tucker, a burly young American professor with designs on Barclay's literary remains. Their relationship begins badly. Hearing what he thinks is a badger rooting through his garbage, the author investigates and finds...
...high rollers, each backed by $6 billion or more, flew into the city. Under the rules of the game they were playing, each had to assemble his best hand by 9 o'clock Monday morning, then make one bet without seeing the chips of the others. The jackpot: Gulf Oil, the fifth-largest U.S. petroleum company and one of the ten biggest corporations. After seven hours the winner was announced: Standard Oil of California, best known for its Chevron gas stations, whose cash bid of $80 a share, or $13.2 billion, became the most ever paid for one American...