Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than half of all bets, or $164 billion; sports gambling was a distant second with a $28 billion take, up 57% from 1983. Though impressive, that increase was dwarfed by a 98% jump in the coins clinked into slot machines, a 103% rise in legal bookmaking and a 228% leap in money wagered in cardrooms...
Earlier this year, when BATF was considering a Stag's Leap AVA for the southern part of the valley, the modest (49 acres) S. Anderson winery spent nearly $40,000 to make the case that it belongs inside the boundaries. "Appellations like Stag's Leap are going to have more meaning in the future," says marketing director John Anderson. P.S.: his vineyard made the district...
...March 19-20, The Women of Brewster Place: a preacher propositions a woman after his sermon. The next scene features them in a sex act. On an NBC program titled UNSUB, April 7: Bishop Grace murders two teenage girls in his congregation. On NBC's Quantum Leap, April 7: a scene in which the series' hero is preparing for sex with his live-in lover has Amazing Grace playing in the background. On NBC, In the Heat of the Night, Jan. 31: Rev. Haskell, who dies, had been having an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners...
...active, progressive Undergraduate Council." And with that Lee kicked off his campaign for chair last September, and the council's leap into the real world...
...battle against sin, a warrior is only as good as his freshest kill, and that is why Hurlbut is riding shotgun this gray Friday afternoon during an assault on a trafficker in lewd videos. At the house, tires screech, and officers leap out with drawn .45s. "If anything's going to go wrong, it's in the first two minutes," says Hurlbut, taking it all in from the Chrysler. Nothing does, but the raid nets only a few small-time video wholesalers. However, clues quickly lead deputies eight miles away to a cramped trailer that proves a cornucopia of hard...