Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game. Edwards, 42, is head of the University of Michigan's Engineering Psychology Laboratory. Since last July, he has been operating an ingenious gambling experiment called "Stakes & Odds" at the Four Queens Hotel in Las Vegas. With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming Commission, a computer has recorded the decision-making patterns of some 250 volunteers. The game that they are asked to play (with real money) has two parts: in the first, a player must select two bets, one good and one bad, from four that are offered him; in the second...
...more than a third of the participants become befogged by superstitions, biases and logical incoherences. Most people, for example, regard an event as more likely to occur if they stand to lose by its occurrence rather than gain by it. Also, they tend to inflate the value of the money they stand to win-that is, a $10 bet means more to them emotionally than five $2 bets...
...favorite scapegoat. Private pilots blamed the airlines for overscheduling. Airline pilots blamed private aviation for taking up scarce runway space. The air-traffic controllers blamed FAA for not providing enough trained men or electronic equipment. FAA sighed and passed the blame along to Congress for not appropriating enough money. A bill that would have pumped $3 billion into airways and ground facilities never got out of committee...
Isadora drank too much, she couldn't keep her hands off good-looking young men, couldn't bother to keep her figure in shape, never could keep track of her money. But a great sense of health filled the hall when the pearshaped figure with the beautiful great arms tramped forward slowly from the back of the stage, She was afraid of nothing; she was a great dancer...
Topol has starred before-in Sallah, a minor movie produced and shot in his homeland. But this is his first leading role in an international big-budget project. It is difficult to see where the money went. Certainly little of it was spent developing the story. In an army camp, circa 1945, a British major (David Niven) tries to impose order on an overflow of displaced persons. From the serried ranks a leader named Janovic emerges. As played by Topol, he is a sleight-of-tongue artist. Janovic can lie in a dozen languages and seduce a girl with...