Word: jersey
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey: As if it weren't bad enough to come home from the casino with an empty wallet, just think how you'd feel a month later if you got a credit card bill charging you 18 percent interest on your losses. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission voted 3-1 on Wednesday to let players buy chips or tokens using credit cards or debit cards in lieu of cash. Not surprisingly, experts on compulsive gambling have criticized the move. "In the act of walking away from a machine and walking outside or into the lobby...
...anointment by Dole adds not just excitement but something like psychological fascination to the campaign. Dole, who has said he wanted his running mate to be "a 10," introduced Kemp on Saturday with the words "I got a 15," a play on the former quarterback's jersey number. As a matter of sheer political accounting, who can argue? Wildly popular with large segments of his party, Kemp also has the crucial potential to appeal beyond them. His support for immigration, school and housing vouchers and affirmative action gives him appeal to minorities and women voters who say the G.O.P...
...Gingrich to shut down the Federal Government, a move Dole thought rightly would come back to haunt Republicans. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, leader of another state Dole badly needs in November, enjoyed a brief boost up the list. But Ridge, pro-choice, would infuriate conservative Christians. So would New Jersey's pro-choice Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who opposes a ban on partial-birth abortions. Ohio Governor George Voinovich dropped out of the running early...
...President, not accountant in chief. Besides, adds Donald Rumsfeld, a senior policy adviser, the Republican nominee is not talking to economists: "The real audience here is the American people." Rumsfeld figures they are ripe for a debate on taxes. "As we saw with [Governors] Christie Whitman in New Jersey and John Engler in Michigan, it is a debate Republicans can win," he says...
...many hundreds of times I have gone through the process in the U.S., having the cross has resulted in an alert and a search only twice. It is a miracle to me that more bombings and terrorist episodes have not happened on U.S. planes. WOLFGANG JOCHLE Denville, New Jersey...