Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really gambling," someone asks, "aren't the odds fifty-fifty that you're going to lose as much as you make?" "At your casino maybe," Eugene, 34, answers with a grin. At the Caribbean Casino -- one of Eugene's Internet gambling dens now operating in beta (for fun) mode and set to begin in earnest (for real money) within two weeks-the odds are 70 to 30 in favor of the house. Whether you are playing blackjack, poker, roulette or the slots, he says, "you are absolutely guaranteed to lose your money most of the time...
...wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations with Cuba. Douglas Waller, TIME national security correspondent, says the State Department is under pressure to seek a lesser quid pro quo rather than lose such a high profile fugitive. Still, Waller adds: "The Vesco case is 23 years old, and he's not Michael Milken. He's an icon of a past generation of greed...
...body to the Undergraduate Council and would give council leaders greater power in dealing with the administration....We support the amendment to the resolution that calls for a cap of $200 to be placed on campaign spending in a popular election....We have much to gain, and nothing to lose, from an improvement in the workings of democracy...
...believe that major cuts at NIH willbe successful," Kennedy told The Crimson. "Wewould be failing to take advantage of the programswe have that work very well. It would be asignificant mistake to lose the... advantage ofthe significant position of the Massachusettseconomy and the American economy...
...next year should be even better. Although the Crimson will lose Chelius, Morgan, Simmons, Libby Eynon and Caroline Schreiber to graduation, a strong core of players are returning. Those players will have a huge appetite that nothing less than an Ivy League title will satisfy...