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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more like an agonizing, gushing laceration. Soon I got the hang of things, the hand signals, the lingo, and before long I was turning a sizable profit. The first night that I returned home with a crisp Ben Franklin in my wallet, I knew that I was a casino man, a high roller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confessions of a Gambling Addict | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

Business Bytes Profit-taking continues to dog the Dow. Friday market wraps in the FORTUNE Business Report. Real-time quotes! From Money.com. Or check the indexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

Business Bytes The Dow clears 8300--just barely--as profit-taking slows the bulls to a 20-point gain on Wednesday. Market wrap in the FORTUNE Business Report. Real-time quotes! From Money.com. Or check the indexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/11/1998 | See Source »

...couldn't crack the story, but when it surfaced elsewhere, Bunton offered Goldberg big money for the tapes. "We made it clear that a million dollars wasn't out of the question." She turned him down, he says, demonstrating that some alleged conspirators are in it for fun, not profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecuted or Paranoid? | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

After steadily losing altitude, not to mention money--$13 billion between 1990 and 1994--the airline industry has been getting whole and then some. Last year the airlines posted a record $5.2 billion profit, up from $3.9 billion in 1996, and industry watchers expect earnings to climb to $5.4 billion this year. Passenger loads, averaging 70%, are at their highest in five decades. Alas, profits seem to be inversely proportional to passenger comfort. How else can you explain jumbo jets equipped with the smallest of seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied Air Force | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

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