Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shaker Heights, Ohio...
After studying 50 cases in a special treatment program at the VA Hospital in Brecksville, Ohio, in 1972, Custer and two associates produced a composite picture of a compulsive gambler in an advanced stage. The portrait, in part: he is a male in his 30s, without any financial resources; he sleeps poorly and is indifferent toward sex; he drinks a good deal; he is tense and irritable; he has thought of suicide; he thinks about gambling constantly...
...course, no one operates any form of gambling without extracting a commission. But the biggest bite is clearly in lotteries, and the biggest of all is New York's 60%. Counting both the state's cut and operating expenses, the takeout in Maine and Ohio is 55%; in New Hampshire, which started the legal lottery craze in 1964, it is 50%. To get a piece of what is left, a ticket buyer still has to compete with the number of other tickets against him. The odds for winning any prize are not good. In New York, for instance...
Goodman would not name the utility company that "invited" Wilson to speak for nuclear energy in Ohio this year, two weeks before voters there defeated a proposed moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants...
Wilson's speech in Ohio "probably swayed the election," Goodman said...