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Voters do not like to be taken for granted. Dealt a political straight flush in a card game no one understands, Jimmy Carter may be overplaying his hand. He's already shown he can't keep a poker face...
While a lie in order to save an innocent life or in an accepted situation--such as a poker game--is acceptable, politicians deceptions are not, Bok said...
Conversation drifts to marriages and the cost of heating oil. Above the bar, on a color television screen, John Anderson talks with reporters in Washington about his campaign strategy for New Hampshire. I interrupt two men arguing about last night's poker game to ask what they think of John Anderson...
...million solar gamble If you are in research and development, it's like playing poker. When you have a good hand, you have to up the ante." So says Atlantic Richfield Vice President Robert Chambers, who feels that the oil company holds some winning cards and that the pot must be hiked. The bet: a $25 million futuristic long shot on Inventor Stanford Ovshinsky, 57, the president, founder and principal stockholder of Energy Conversion Devices of Troy, Mich. Arco, which initially gave ECD $3.3 million in funding last May, now believes the company's research hi new ways...
...Nixon's inner circle -and was even wiretapped as a suspected source of press leaks. He now feels some regret over his role in helping Nixon win. During the 1976 campaign, Sears' tendency to drink too much grew worse. A Roman Catholic who will readily interrupt a poker game to attend evening Mass, he has since become a teetotaler...