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...report challenged criticism that the IDA was, as Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards of Oklahoma had put it, "a giant worldwide welfare program." But it nonetheless recommended that...
...only on Sundays. The last was just before Thanksgiving: Maine authorities have managed to cut the high-stakes jackpots (from up to $5,000 a game to $200) because the Penobscots agreed in 1980 not to be treated as a sovereign reservation. Officials in Washington State, Arizona and Oklahoma are now trying to control Indian games. However, federal appellate courts ruled as recently as 1982 that if a state allows any bingo gambling-and 42 do-then it has no authority to regulate the way that Indians run bingo on their reservations...
Sandy Ellison Oklahoma City...
...trouble was that city and state governments failed to set up a safety net for those who don't cope well." On Los Angeles' Skid Row, says Social Worker Herb Lester, "I get a lot of people who say, 'They gave me a bus ticket in Oklahoma and said to come here because they couldn't help me any more...
After filing for Chapter 11 last April, Wilson Foods of Oklahoma City chopped wages for its 6,000 production employees from $10.69 to $6.50 an hour. Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union went on strike, but eventually they agreed to a wage cut of $2.69 an hour. Continental Air Lines, the ninth largest U.S. carrier, filed for bankruptcy in September, then dismissed its 12,000 workers, only to offer jobs to 4,200 of them at about half their previous pay. Pilots and flight attendants went on strike, but enough of them crossed picket lines for Continental...