Word: pied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans legally hazarded an astonishing half a trillion dollars in 1995, earning the gaming industry profits of $44.4 billion--more than the net revenue from movies, music and sports entertainment combined. But as the Web becomes ubiquitous, online gambling will grab an ever larger slice of this multibillion-dollar pie. "I get two calls a day," says Rose, "one from the media, the other from someone who wants to set up shop on the Net. There's a feeling that they're getting in on the ground floor of the next...
...girl.' The problem is that there's nothing new here; none of the songs has much ambition beyond making a blunt impact. "If you're going to spell 'colour' with a u in your album title," Farley says, "shouldn't you at least try for pretentiousness?" MUSIC . . . FLAMING PIE: Much of Paul McCartney's new album was composed while he was helping compile the songs on the three Beatles Anthology albums which came out in 1995-96. "The main thing about it is I didn?t have to do (an album), so it kind of changed the whole attitude," says...
...tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion, to be paid over 25 years, and even to many of them the amount originally seemed pie-in-the-sky high. Then something interesting happened: tobacco stocks rallied as Wall Street ground down a few hundred pencils figuring out that the entire $300 billion could be funded with a price increase and an additional tax of 50[cents] a pack. Think of the possibilities with a total...
...prove that Kling was McVeigh as prosecutors allege; she never saw the man who called in the order, and the delivery driver didn't get a good look at him. Also Friday, jurors saw a videotape from a McDonald's security camera of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking his watch just before he allegedly walked to a body shop and rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing. But again, the tape was just another piece of circumstantial evidence - not proof that McVeigh bombed the federal building. Says Cole: "While the government has done a masterful...
...vision of this corporation is to let other people do the work and then come in and take the biggest piece of the pie," said Peter Valentine, who lives on Cambridge Street...