Word: nationalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Football League has brought suit against the Delaware gambit, charging that it will sully the game's reputation and lead fans to believe the sport is being fixed. In fact, an estimated $15 billion to $30 billion in illegal bets are already being wagered on sports nationally?$1.5 billion in New York City alone, much of it on football?without stirring grave suspicions of foul play. Top officials of organized basketball, baseball and hockey also vociferously oppose legalized betting on their sports though this nonetheless seems likely to follow across the nation. The more deeply held moral objection...
...very materialistic and success-oriented society that is tremendously influenced by mass communication, particularly TV. The effect on children is to indulge them into thinking they can do anything?but that, by hook or by crook, they need to have money to be successful. We're talking about a nation at high risk to having a gambling problem; it is a nation susceptible to gambling...
...nation to date has virtually ignored the problem of the compulsive gambler. The only federal funds allotted to treatment of the hopelessly addicted bettor are some $330,000 a year spent by the Veterans Administration. Dr. Robert Custer, who as chief of the VA's mental-services division has made a close study of the subject, points out that there is now no funding whatever for research into gambling addiction, as there is for alcoholism. He suggests that psychological research and treatment of the obsessive gambler could be financed by a small portion?say, .5%?of the revenue that...
...Angeles street. One of the gamblers was rushing to a card game, the other to a race track, and they started telling each other their problems. There are now 5,000 members of G.A. in the U.S., but they represent only a tiny percentage of the nation's compulsive gamblers, variously estimated to number from 1 million to more than 4 million. Therapeutic talk sessions are the backbone of the organization, as in Alcoholics Anonymous...
...drive to pep up the dawdling U.S. economy, Jimmy Carter will face at least two major challenges: prompting more investment by edgy businessmen and forging a working relationship with Arthur Burns, conservative chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board, which controls the nation's credit. Last week Carter's prospects for doing both brightened measurably. After an hour-long meeting in Washington with Burns, the President-elect reported that the chairman found his economic goals for 1977 "reasonable." Those goals are a 6% rise in real output, v. 3.8% in this year's third quarter...