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...terekura, or telephone-sex clubs, also reflects the deterioration in the lives of young Japanese. A large number of high school girls in the big cities--27%, according to a 1994 study by the National Congress of Parents and Teachers--work occasionally for the services, and some unknown portion of those act as prostitutes as well. The innocent-schoolgirl type can easily command more than $1,000 a night for a date and sex and still get home in time for lights...
...sensing a potential windfall for the state, and desiring to make the best of a situation in which he had to allow gambling but did not want its propagation, worked out a deal with Foxwoods. As long as Connecticut prohibited all private gambling, Foxwoods would pay the state a portion of its intake every year (the amount paid last year approached $200 million), essentially purchasing a government-sanctioned gambling monopoly for itself...
...does, and the nettlesome portion is repeated, the President can veto Congress's action. Congress could then override the veto, but a two-thirds vote would be required--a near impossibility in the real world...
While the latter two changes were incorporated, the first two were rejected. Whatever the logistical and/or ideological reasons for this rejection, the document now failed to condmen a significant portion of the violence and hate that exists, rendering it a statement which we as a religious organization could not, in good conscience, sign. While we agree with the statement's condemnation of recent terrorism, the realization that certain related violent acts are consciously not being condemned in this same statement forces us to qualify our support of this petition...
That would be Harvard's last win for a few days. In the double-elimination portion of the tournament--the first three games were round-robin--Harvard lost to Toledo, 2-1, and Bowling Green...