Word: jersey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defect to a new location. New York City knows the feeling only too well. In a case that still rankles, it handed AT&T $20 million in tax relief in the 1980s, only to see the phone company later disconnect and move most of its corporate staff to New Jersey. Still, the city is frenetically defending its turf with handouts, especially to financial companies such as CS First Boston...
That helps explain why the casinos' record on spurring nongambling economic growth is so spotty. Local restaurants are often squeezed out by cheap in-house casino eateries. Atlantic City, New Jersey, lost about a third of its retail businesses after casinos moved in and former customers gambled away their discretionary dollars. In South Dakota, when slot machines were legalized to revive the Black Hills resort of Deadwood, the three car dealerships, the hardware store, the clothing shop and the local Taco Bell all converted into mini-casinos--a more lucrative business, gutting the town's retail base...
...USED THE MINIATURE TAPE REcorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would do much more than capture a lecture. It was a microcassette found in Kathleen Weinstein's shirt pocket that not only led police to her alleged killer but also revealed the New Jersey teacher to be a woman of extraordinary courage and compassion...
MARGOT HORNBLOWER returned to the U.S. in 1994 after six years at TIME's Paris bureau and was astonished to see how much gambling was going on in America. Back in 1988, Nevada and New Jersey were the only two states where casinos were permitted. Since then they have been legalized in 24 others. Hornblower's report this week examines gambling's hidden costs and often illusory benefits. Just how pervasive wagering has become was driven home for Hornblower when she flew back to Los Angeles from her reporting assignment and found a letter from her son's parochial school...
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey: Redemption of sorts will come to either Jim Boeheim or Rick Pitino in tonight's NCAA Mens championship basketball game. In an ironic twist, the game pits Syracuse coach Boeheim against the man who he hired as his first assistant coach two decades ago -- Kentucky's Pitino. For Boeheim, the game will be a chance to refute critics who say he is an underachieving coach who despite a wealth of talent has never won anything important. The Syracuse coach last went to the championship game in 1987 with a hugely talented team lead by future...