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...both, they offer at best an unreliable source of income. The games generate a rush of enthusiasm, with revenues to match, when they are first legalized. But interest and profits soon sag unless new versions are introduced. In 1981 Arizona's opening game pulled in a robust $5.4 million a week; by its second year, the take had plummeted to $900,000. (It now averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas Gordon, executive director of the Washington, B.C., lottery, which started in 1982 with an "instant...
...Fever Swamp," with music by Peter Gordon and choreography by Bill T. Jones, followed "Isba" A short, intense work created for the male members of the Ailey Company. "Fever Swamp," celebrated their strength, robust ensemble work, technique and expression. Seemingly light-hearted, it mirrored Peter Gordon's sharp staccato "Intervallic Expressions." The music's surface--slick, square and seemingly native--veiled an inner surface ripe with irregularities and good-humored ironies...
...expel or censure wrongdoers, even though fraternal coziness makes such action rare. Journalism has no admission standards. A plumber or a hairdresser must pass a test to get a license, but no journalist does, on the grounds that licensing would be abhorrent to the idea of a free and robust press...
...recovery turned out to be much more robust than Feldstein and most other economists expected. Last year's growth rate was 6.1%, or double Feldstein's forecast. That miscalculation hurt his standing in the Administration and encouraged the supply-siders...
...ignominy in World War II and from constitutional paralysis afterward was not always as good as his word, much to the exasperation of his wartime Allies and the puzzlement of his countrymen. But as Don Cook, longtime Paris bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, points out in this robust, unsentimental biography, Charles de Gaulle never deviated from the idea that animated his entire career. As he once summed it up, "France cannot be France without greatness...