Word: offerring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like many other antigambling laws, is hardly ever enforced. Betting goes on so openly that all but a handful of newspaper sports pages print the odds on baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance. Asks Bobby Knight, basketball coach of Indiana University: "Why don't the newspapers run whores' phone numbers? Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution...
...program was designed to provide housing to people over age 70 who can live on their own and afford market rents. The centers do not provide medical care but do offer such services as central dining and recreation...
...that children's services can help win loyal business travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business -- offer a specialty product line for children, and you build brand loyalty...
...provision sure to draw a legal test on separation of church and state, the bill would issue vouchers to parents for use in day-care centers that offer religious instruction. To win the support of Republican Senators, ABC would create a tax credit for the costs of care and child health insurance, adding to the federal deficit as much as $10.3 billion in lost tax revenues in five years...
...difficult to see how he can sustain such a veto. Although the vote broke down largely on party lines, nine Republicans joined 54 Democrats in passing the plan. Moreover, the House is working on a / bill similar to ABC that would also expand the Head Start program and offer school-based care to latchkey children. Bowing perhaps to political reality, the Administration indicated last week that it would be willing to discuss how ABC can be improved...