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Critics of the proposed ban point out that the government may actually be outlawing the slots because they are competition for the state-run Le Loto, a weekly lottery that brings some $326 million into the French treasury each year. Le Loto, which also runs mainly out of cafes and bars, could raise even more money if there were fewer games in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forbidden Fruit | 5/9/1983 | See Source »

Clark gave the impression of dismantling the federal authority. He talked of Canada as a "community of communities"; he said offshore resources belonged to the provinces; he tried to dismember Canada's national oil company, PetroCan, and repeatedly waxed inconsistent. In addition, he ceded Loto Canada, formerly the Olympic lottery, to the provinces, and most significantly, said he would not participate in Quebec's forthcoming referendum debate on secession...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Second Coming | 2/23/1980 | See Source »

...them, eh?" He uttered a timid little chuckle, and at that moment an innumerable host of hours began a ballet d'action illustrative of a series of events in the career of the Prophet. It was obvious that my poor uncomplaining old friend was really very miserable. The "thornless loto trees" were all thorny to him, and the "tal'h trees with piles of fruit, the outspread shade, and water outpoured" could not comfort him in his really very natural shyness. A happy thought occurred to me. In early and credulous youth I had studied the works of Cornelous youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROFESSOR IN AN EASTERN PARADISE. | 1/30/1884 | See Source »

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