Word: jackpots
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...Well before the Budget, great hopes were held by the urgers. Maverick M.P.s, think tanks, business lobbyists, welfare groups and opinionaters shot out a stream of ideas for things to do with revenues swollen by the resources jackpot. A short list included tax cuts, for companies and individuals; more investment in skills development, education and research; increasing workforce participation and raising national savings; improving child-care arrangements; and modernizing infrastructure, especially broadband, roads, railways and ports. The government certainly delivered in some of these areas, but the programs were scattered and underfunded; they seemed like mere sops to the policy...
...pizza for $1 a slice at Tashir's shiny new restaurant, which also offers wireless Internet access. Nearby are a sushi bar, a kitchen-design store, a café that bears a passing resemblance to Starbucks, a bright yellow mobile-phone kiosk that's open 24 hours a day and Jackpot, a slot-machine arcade that marks Kaluga's attempt at glamour. "You can see people have more money," says Alexander Kuptsov, owner of Bellissimo, a shoe boutique that stocks a range of little-known Italian brands alongside a few famous ones like Valentino. In a good month he sells...
...science underpinning all intuitive beliefs, including religion, that humans stubbornly cling to, in spite of the best efforts of rational enquiry to displace them: credence in the paranormal, magic and superstition; faith in alternative-health therapies; the conviction that sooner or later we're bound to win a lottery jackpot. Our belief engine, Wolpert concludes, works on wholly unscientific principles: "It prefers quick decisions, it is bad with numbers, loves representativeness and sees patterns where there is only randomness. It is too often influenced by authority and it has a liking for mysticism." It is no coincidence that the stubbornest...
...that house pride is like Eastern European nationalism: a lot of slogans and flag-waving that mask an undercurrent of broken dreams. It’s true that every house has its pros and cons. Some, for example, serve grape juice (little known fact). Some houses have huge dogs (jackpot!), and some have aggravating children (miserable!). Currier has multiple TV-viewing areas, yet it also feels like a mixture between a psychiatric ward and a Radisson lobby. The main thing to remember is that, in the end, they are all filled with the same faceless and miserable people. However, according...
...creative coup is often more the result of serendipity than science. Stuart Vevers, the young designer behind the suddenly hot British brand Mulberry, says creating an "It" bag is just dumb luck. He hit the jackpot three seasons ago when Kate Moss strolled through London carrying his Roxanne bag--a slouchy duffel in distressed leather. "I don't think you can create a hot handbag every season," says Vevers, who used to work at Vuitton. "You have to wait for your time...