Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Standing off Highway 18 on the Pine Ridge reservation is what Slade Gorton would like to believe is a symbol of hope and self-sufficiency. It is Prairie Wind, the Oglala Sioux's venture into Indian gambling. Housed temporarily in two connected double-wide trailers, it consists of several slot machines and two tables for poker and blackjack. The casino's revenues in its 10 months of existence have run from $13,000 to $92,000 a month, of which 30% is earmarked for its investors. Thus far, after expenses, it has provided $10,000 for children's school clothes...
...mischief before they are caught. The men plan to tag Mururoa's buildings with Greenpeace stickers and graffiti, slip notes to some of the press people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...
...hysteria continues into the world of infomercials, where TIME's Wendy Cole reports that the company will air a 30-minute "syndicated television special" in 70 major television markets. In an infomercial first, the program will run commercials for other companies, such as Coke, during the half-hour slot which Microsoft purchased, making the commercial appear like regular television programming. "This blurs the distinction between programming and advertising," reports Cole. "But make no mistake, Bill Gates paid for this program. You won't hear anything but good news about Windows...
Harvard ended the season with a 34-game dual match winning streak, a streak that looks to be in good hands. Only two of the Crimson's top seven players were seniors, Eynon and co-captain Rosie Stovell, who usually played at the number five slot...
...minutes time slot is crucial. Those hour-long specials never fail to fall flat, and you can hear the groans across the country when "To Be Continued" flashes across the screen. The American attention span can just barely encompass 30 minutes, and heaven forfend that viewers should have to remember what happened last week! That's what those little "Last Week on...."blurbs...