Word: jackpot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their purses and pulling levers hour after hour, as if at work in a stamping factory. Most are elderly, but their backs are straight, and their eyes are hypnotically fixed on the spinning fruit as the winning coins hit the metal troughs in twos and tens and -- rarely -- jackpot hemorrhages...
...players of Montana's Big Spin lottery game, lady luck went on vacation and never came back. In Big Spin, the state chooses three people each week from among thousands of losing lottery ticket holders and gives them a chance to win a $1 million jackpot by whirling the Big Spin wheel. But in 222 tries over the past 18 months, no one has hit the jackpot. Officials added a second $1 million slot to the 100-slot wheel, but to no avail. Without a big winner to hype, ticket sales have dropped from $23 million in fiscal...
...wheel fixed? Evidently not: the jackpot has turned up several times in practice runs. Perhaps lottery officials should talk to Vanna White for a few tips...
...best publicists know how to woo and use even the jackpot shows like Today and Good Morning America. A studio may let a show do a location report in exchange for multishow exposure when the film is released. Nowadays, the big stars expect more than at least three segments on the breakfast clubs; for a Clint Eastwood, the Today show should be renamed Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Says one studio publicity executive: "If you have a few Class A stars in a picture, you can play the two shows off each other until you get everything you want. On Steel...
...into his wallet. Nor is it certain that this money would ever be applied to his $1.1 million 1984 debt which, legally, is not owed by Hart personally. Only if Hart gets the matching funds, drops out of the race again, and wins FEC approval might this $1 million jackpot be used to close the books...